swans

Text and illustrations depict swans feeding, breeding, and defending themselves in their natural habitats.

Provides a description of swans, explains where and how they live, what they eat, and how they give birth, and includes a swan story.

A quiet cove on a small island is the summer home for a pair of swans and their offspring.

Explains the life cycle of the world's largest swan, including information on nest-building, mating, the raising of young, feeding, and other behavior.

A ballet-loving swan wins acclaim when she manages to join the other dancers in a performance of Swan Lake.

A farmer whose crops have failed because of drought cannot bear to shoot a beautiful magic swan, even to feed his starving family.

Liadan, the daughter of Sorcha, must take up her mother's quest to save her brothers from the spell that has held them captive.

A retelling of the Celtic "Swans" myth, in which Sorcha, the only daughter in a family of seven children, is forced to leave the only safe place she has ever known in order to save her brothers from a spell that only she can lift.

A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's story, in which a young princess tries to reverse a spell cast by her new stepmother--a witch--that has turned her brothers into swans.

Describes the lifestyle and habitat of the swan, whooping crane, and loon; how the destruction of wetlands threatens their survival; and what we can do to save the animals.