swans

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.

A young bird thinks it is a duckling but finds he is a baby swan.

Retells the classic fairy tale about a duckling who is rejected for his unusual appearance, but who grows to be the most beautiful of all; retold and illustrated in an ethnic format.

A family of tundra swans migrate from Chesapeake Bay to their Canadian summer home, where they raise five new cygnets before once again making the difficult journey back to their winter home by Thanksgiving Day.

Describes, in simple text and photographs, the lives of swans in their natural habitat explaining how they feed, defend themselves, and breed.

Lex's involvement with a family of swans headed by a crazed cob helps him work out the emotional problems caused by his father's suicide.