Publisher's Synopsis
"Life Cycles" is a series of first natural history books aimed at the new reader. It is designed to be used in number of ways: younger readers can read the text in large print while the more detailed smaller type is for older children. In addition, younger children can follow the pictures as the text is read to them. Each title contains suggestions for a simple method of keeping or investigating the animal.;This title in the "Life Cycles" series concentrates on the mallard duck, describing its habitat, its colouring and features and the differences between male and female. The life cycle is followed, stage by stage and includes courtship, mating, nest-building, egg-laying, incubation and growth of the baby ducklings to adulthood. Their relationship with their mother, their feeding habits and the dangers that they face are also included.;Jill Bailey has also written "Discovering Rats and Mice", "Discovering Crabs and Lobsters" and "Discovering Deer".
