Susan Vande Griek Pictures by Karen Reczuch Groundwood Books House of Anansi Press Toronto Berkeley
It is a birth day a late June day a baby loon’s first day From the large greenish-brown spotted egg in the spoon of the waterweed-and-mud nest the dark little chick pecks and peeks then splays out near her mama’s big webbed feet And less than a June day later she has a brother
