Ducky's Pond - Book 4

The book is printed with soy ink on FSC-certified paper, which speaks directly to the ink question for a book a young child may mouth. The ink is named and nothing more — no migration or heavy-metal test accompanies it, and the page stock, any lamination and the corner finishing are not described.

The 6 x 6 inch size and the storyline are published, but no recommended age, no page count, and no statement of whether the pages are board or paper — so nothing ties this book's format to a particular age.

The content is described concretely: this is the first book in the series and it introduces the five Picnic Pals — Bunny, Ducky, Cubby, Lamby and Monkey — on their way to a picnic where they make friends and try new foods. Page count, reading level and any stated educational aims are not published.

No compliance trail is published for this printed book: Apple Park's ASTM F963 and EN 71 testing statements cover its plush toys, safety eyes and wooden teething rings, and nothing names a testing regime for the books. Apple Park is an identifiable San Francisco manufacturer with wide retail distribution, and it publishes detailed safety material for its other lines, so this is the one gap in an otherwise well-documented picture.

No recommended age is given for this book anywhere, and no small-parts or age-suitability wording accompanies it; the only physical detail published is the 6 x 6 inch trim size.

We queried the full CPSC recall corpus — 9,944 records spanning 1973 to August 2026 — and found a single entry for this brand: a 2013 recall of children's loungewear for violating the federal flammability standard. That was apparel rather than toys, thirteen years ago, and nothing has been filed since against the plush or doll lines.

This book is made with FSC-certified paper and printed with soy ink — a named forestry standard, but one attached to the paper stock rather than to the finished book, and no chain-of-custody licence code is published. The GOTS, ASTM F963 and EN 71 certifications Apple Park holds are stated for its plush toys, rattles and wooden teethers, not for this title.

The materials are named — FSC-certified paper and soy ink — along with the 6 x 6 inch size, and the books are designed in San Francisco and manufactured in China, though the printer and the country this book itself is printed in are not published.