​My son Adam attends day care.  When he was three the teachers at his school wouldn't allow Adam or his friends to play pretend games involving super heroes as they were deemed too violent.  So Adam and his buddies came up with Super Duckies, a game they were allowed to play, even though they played it almost exactly the same as they were playing their original super hero game.

This inventive trump by the kids struck a chord with me and the image of little super powered ducks really made me laugh.  I ended up doodling a Super Duck for Adam in a graphics tool I was learning, Inskscape.    After I showed it to Adam, he immediately wanted more of them in different colors.  I did a few, and left it at that.

Several years later while browsing through the kid's section at a book sale, a friend urged me to stop yacking about making a kid's book and just make one already.  And here we are!