Excellent close-up photographs enhance an exclamation-point-heavy and fanciful text describing a wood duck's habitat, diet, and life cycle: a mother cares for her eggs and raises the newly hatched ducklings, then the young birds grow up and start their own families. Appended pages elaborate on other egg-laying animals and the physical adaptations of wood ducks; a "Let's Be Ducklings" activity is also included. (c) Copyright 2018. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.