swans

The ugly duckling is scorned by everyone because he is different, but after a lonely winter he discovers he has grown in to a beautiful swan.

While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.

A child goes on an adventure to a marsh to observe a swan and discovers swans can be dangerous if they're defending their nest.

Two different interweaving stories that mirror each other in theme and character study. The first story starts in 1689 England, where 15-year-old Eliza finds her 11 brothers turned into enchanted swans. In the second story, Elias, a young man living with AIDS in the 1980s, is rejected by his family and must learn to live life on the streets.

Eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.

A trumpeter swan family stays close together as the cygnets learn how to feed themselves, honk when predators are nearby, and develop flight feathers. Includes facts about the trumpeter swan, the largest waterfowl in the world.

Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.

Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again.

Describes some members of the order of waterfowl which includes swans, geese, and ducks.

A little duckling, scorned because he looks different, discovers he is really a swan. Presented in Spanish and English.