Belle-Duck at the Peabody

Belle-Duck at the Peabody by Wells, Dean Faulkner. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780916242244.

Belle, the baby duckling, and Willie, her brother, were barely hatched when they were captured by hunters. Soon they found themselves in a huge city, in a huge building with a marble pond where they swim every day to the delight of visitors. Dean Faulkner Wells tells a delightful story to explain how the ducks first came to the fountain of The Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Belle is happy in her new home, but Willie, the renegade (named for renowned Mississippi author, Willie Morris) longs to return to the freedom of the skies….Renee Boyles’ illustrations of the ducks in the wild and in the Peabody lobby add to the pleasure any child will find in this book.