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Describes the appearance, habits, migration, reproduction, and family life of this beautiful, large bird.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Althea
Other Authors:	Blossom, Joe (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : Longman Group USA, c1988.
Series:	Life cycles
Subjects:	Mute swan > Juvenile nonfiction. Swans > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Describes the appearance, habits, migration, reproduction, and family life of this beautiful, large bird.
Physical Description:	24 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0884621944 (lib. bdg.) 0884621952 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Althea Braithwaite was an author, illustrator, printer, publisher and bookseller. She was born in 1940 and lived most of her life in East Anglia, U.K. She wrote more than 200 books. Her best-known fiction books were The Desmond the Dinosaur series which included Desmond and the Monsters (1975) and Desmond and the Stranger (1979). She wrote a popular nonfiction series, The Talk It Over series, which later was updated and reissued as Talking It Through. She had a simple and direct style of writing and illustrating that appealed to children. Her career included being head of Polyhedron printers and co-owning a mobile bookshop. On August 27, 2020, she died at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography)