Presents three stories by Robert McCloskey, including the title work about a family of mallard ducks that makes its home in Boston's Public Garden with the help of some non-feathered friends.
A wild duck narrator looks at the past when the environment was bountiful, searches through today's polluted environment for a home, and encourages saving and restoring the environment for the future.
The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them.