Ducks in a parade? Crazy? Not in Spokane where ducks paraded right down Riverside Avenue in the Lilac Festival Parade! Read along to find out how Mama duck and her twelve ducklings ended up in a parade of their own.

Based on the heartwarming, true story of a mother duck that hatched her ducklings on the side of a downtown office building in Spokane, Washington. A friend helped rescue the ducklings as they began to fall to the sidewalk below. With his help, the mother and her ducklings then traveled through the middle of a downtown parade to reach the river a few blocks away. Written by Spokane local, Richard Repp, with illustrations by Repp, his mother, and his daughter. This hometown, feel-good story is brought to life through Repp's storytelling and his family's collaborative illustrations.

compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Washington ; sponsored by the Washington State Historical Society. Rev. ed. /$bwith added material by Howard McKinley Corning.