Voyaging to the Mediterranean Under Power: Imprints of Ports, People, Sunsets, and Storms, Umstot Mary

One year, one of the eggs hatches early, and Majen is surprised to see not a yellow duckling but a small, black baby chicken The baby chick does not understand that it isn't the same kind of bird as Mama Duck, and Mama Duck cares for her strange baby just as carefully as she cares for her five baby ducklings. Even if the chick can't swim like the others, she still loves it. But what will happen when it grows up to be a hen?

This children's story tells the tale of a baby chicken who is hatched from an egg by Mama Duck and who grows up within a little duck family.