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Reviewed on November 1, 2004
PreS-Gr 3 These titles present the life cycles of a duck and an apple tree in lovely, painterly pictures and text. In the first book, proud mallard parents start out in a nest near a pond; eggs appear on the following spread, one in a cutaway showing an embryo chick's growth. Various predators threaten the hatchlings and, after six months, both male and female ducks are full grown and ready to migrate. Supplemental spreads on feeding in a pond, feathers, migrations, and courtship extend ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More