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A tranquil pond becomes a frightening place for a loon chick that is separated from his parents by a menacing snapping turtle. But the brave little bird remains in his hiding place and also survives encounters with a huge moose, a hungry raccoon, and a speedy otter. In the end, he is reunited with his mother and father just as night falls.
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About the Author
After growing up in New Jersey, Pamela Love graduated from BucknellUniversity in Pennsylvania. She worked as a teacher and in marketingbefore turning to writing. She's the author of several other picturebooks: A Loon Alone, A Cub Explores, A Moose's Morning, and Lighthouse Seeds, all published by Down East Books, and Brigid and the Butter, published by Pauline Books and Media. She has also written an easy reader, Two Feet Up, Two Feet Down, published by Scholastic Children's Books. Her poems, stories, and plays have appeared in such children's magazines as Highlights for Children, Cricket, and Plays: The Drama Magazine for Young People. One of her stories appears in the anthology Family Matters: Thirteen Short Stories, which is also published by Pauline Books and Media. She lives with her family in Maryland.
From Publishers Weekly
Author and artist fluidly combine a glimpse of nature's pecking order and a cautionary tale in this attractive volume about a loon chick separated from and ultimately reunited with its mother. "On a lake in the Maine woods, two loons a mother and chick were swimming together." But the young bird soon lags behind. Young readers will identify with the loon chick's distraction as he engages in innocent fun: "Sometimes, he would dive and bring up a smooth, white stone in his dark grey bill. It was play but also practice for catching fish someday." However, his antics draw unwanted attention from a snapping turtle; his mother spies the predator and scares the turtle away. Sycks's finely detailed illustrations, rendered in earth-tones, shows the loon nestling beside cattails and a fallen tree branch as camouflage. Intricate pencil strokes reveal the chick's wispy down with scientific accuracy. Love narrates the proceedings without anthropomorphizing the creatures, and brings the book to a reassuring conclusion: "Kwuk, kwuk," calls mother loon, signaling that it's safe for her chick to come out. Ages 4-7.
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- PublisherDown East Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0892725265
- ISBN 13 9780892725267
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages30
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