This irresistible and informative book introduces young readers to adorable baby ducks through simple language, full-color photos, and picture glossaries.

A girl finds a baby duckling, and discovers that love is taking care of something that needs you, and also knowing when to let it go.

Pick and preen. Fluffy feathers fall out. Sleek feathers grow in. What's it like for ducklings to grow up?

"When Flo and her daddy go to visit a relative's new nest, Daddy Duck says Flo must follow him or she'll get lost. Together, they sing a song with all the directions for the journey--up, down, in, and out. But Flo starts to make up her own words, and soon she gets so carried away that she wanders off. Oh, no--now a fox is following Flo! Where is Daddy Duck? What are the words to his song again?"--

When a lost duckling waddles onto their jobsite, Digger and his friends learn how to do more than just scoop, hoist, and push--they learn to become a family.

This title covers the first days and weeks of a duckling's life through simple sentences. Fun and colorful photographs correlate with the text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

The ugly duckling finds that as a beautiful swan he cannot get the right kind of publicity needed for the anti-pollution campaign, so he decides to change back to his old self to help save the forest.

The three little pigs: Relates the adventures of the three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortune and how they deal with the big bad wolf. The three billy goats gruff: A wicked troll tries in vain to gobble up a family of goats when they go trip-trapping over his bridge. The ugly duckling: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

"Discover the true story of an unlikely family -- an orphaned mallard duckling raised by a pair of loons. Lyrical verse and evocative illustrations combine in this heartwarming tale of animal cooperation"-- "On a lake in northern Wisconsin in 2019, loon researchers were surprised to discover a mother and father loon caring for a mallard duckling. Normally loons and mallards live very different lives and do not get along. Follow along as the duckling...