A mother duck leads her brood around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling. None of the pond-residents--bird, turtle, beaver, or fish--has seen Mother Duck's missing baby. But clever viewers of these charming color scenes can see that the duckling isn't really lost, just adventuring--and never very far away. A reassuring story of youthful independence and familial love.

Welcome to a magical world where animals talk and play - just like you and me! Best friends Jess and Lily love all animals. But when they follow a mysterious golden cat into Friendship Forest - a place where animals live in tiny cottages and sip dandelion tea at the Toadstool Cafe - their summer holidays suddenly become much more magical! It's Ellie Featherbill's birthday, and she's having a party at her houseboat home on Willowtree River. But Grizelda...

Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.

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.

"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?"--

This exuberant read-aloud stars a very clever duckling named Puck who, falling farther and farther behind Mama Duck and his siblings as they swim to the lily pond, comes up with a sneaky solution to get ahead.

A doll, Edith, and her friends, Mr. Bear and Little Bear, visit a farm in the hills of upstate New York in the 1960s. There they raise a wild duckling, eventually freeing it back into the wild. Illustrated with photographs.

Jasmine Green's mom is a veterinarian and her dad is a farmer. She has spent her life surrounded by animals. So when she sees animals that need rescuing, she knows just what to do. While walking in the woods, Jasmine and her best friend, Tom, find a nest of orphaned duck eggs. The eggs need lots of care. Hatching them is hard work. Can Jasmine keep the eggs warm and safe? With a little love and luck, the Green family farm will have a fluffy duckling...

Lucy Goose lives on a farm with all the other animals, and when she inadvertently hatches a baby duckling she has a new friend and follower to teach about life and friendship in the barnyard.