Flap Your Wings

Category:Groiler Beginner Book Series
Category:The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books
Flap Your Wings is a 1969 book written and illustrated by P.D. Eastman.
== Story ==
The book begins with an egg laying in the path. A boy walks up and asks whose egg it is. There is no answer. All he sees are pond animals. Then the boy looks up and sees a tree with an empty nest. He assumes that the egg belongs in the nest. He climbs up the tree and puts it there. Then he walks away.
Two birds fly to their nest and are surprised to see such a large egg in their nest. Mr. Bird says it doesn't matter whose egg it is, as long as it's in their nest, and they must hatch it to keep it warm. They take turns sitting on the egg and sometimes both birds sit on it together.
Then one day, Mrs. Bird hears a squeaking noise, which means that the baby is ready to come out of the egg. The egg cracks open and out comes the baby, named Junior, who is a lot different from the two birds. Mrs. Bird sees that something is wrong. Mr. Bird says that Junior is their own young, and when his mouth is open, it means he is hungry and needs to be fed. The birds feed him a lot until he outgrows the nest.
Now, Junior is too big for the nest. Mr. and Mrs. Bird teach him how to fly like a bird. They tell him to jump off and flap his wings like a bird. Junior does so, but falls into the water, which just right for Junior. Mrs. Bird doesn't believe that they have raised something that is not a bird. But no matter if Junior is actually an alligator, his parents should take good care of him.
== Trivia ==
* This book was originally published as a Random House Early Bird Book. It was republished as a Beginner Book in 2000.