Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. My little book. Each book in the series is intended to be simple enough for early readers to follow, but technically accurate enough to move them towards a fuller understanding of the real lives of animals in the wild. This book tells the tale of a breeding pair of ducks who convert an abandoned woodpecker burrow into a safe place to lay eggs and raise their chicks. Readers follow the mother duck as she prepares the nest inside an oak tree, lays nine eggs and then incubates them for twenty eight days.
Readers then learn how the eggs hatch and the ducklings emerge.
The book shows the ducklings growing, following their mother through the woods to a nearby pond and learning to find food, as well as evading predation by hawks, snapping turtles and other predators. The book ends by showing the ducklings safe and sound as they snuggle close to their mother in a reed bed. All the books in this series are illustrated by the same artist using full page color paintings throughout. The illustrations have a unique style, intended to be whimsical and appealing, yet also realistic so that they reveal useful information about the natural history of the subjects.