Two very different ducks. One very real friendship.
Howard was a Pekin duck — large, white, and very bad at flying. Lost on the Tred Avon River, he followed a flock of mallards around the bend to a place called Mallards' Rest, where he hoped, more than anything, that he could stay.
The mallards chased him off. The Canada geese were worse. But on a quiet floating dock, a mama duck made room — and Howard began to wonder if maybe he'd found somewhere to belong.
Then a duckling named Charlie hatched alone in the dock's nest box. Hand-raised by the humans who found him, Charlie grew into a mallard with one difference: his wings would never let him fly. Just like Howard.
Howard made room."
Set on the real Tred Avon River on Maryland's Eastern Shore — where the osprey dove, the heron fished, the eagle watched, and the geese complained — this is a true story about belonging exactly as you are.
