Flap Your Wings by P.D. Eastman
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Flap your wings by P D Eastman. An egg lay in the path. A boy came down the path, he saw the egg. He looked around, he saw flamingos and frogs and turtles and alligators. Whose egg is this? He called but nobody answered. Then the boy looked up, he saw an empty nest in the tree. Here is an egg without a nest. He said, and there is a nest without an egg. The boy climbed the tree, he put the egg in the nest, then he went away. Mr and Mrs Bird came home. They were surprised to find an egg in their nest. That is not our egg said, Mrs bird, look how big it is, but it is an egg and it's in our nest. Said Mr Bird, if an egg is in our nest, you sit on it and you keep it warm. It doesn't matter whose egg it is. All right. Said Mrs Bird. But I wonder what kind of bird will come out of that egg. They took turns keeping the egg warm. First, Mrs bird sat on it, then Mr Bird sat on it and sometimes because it was so big, they both sat on it. One day. Mrs Bird heard a squeaking noise help. She said this egg is squeaking. Mr Bird came back to the nest. He listened to the egg, the egg is not squeaking. He said it's our baby and it's squeaking. He's ready to come out of the egg. Mr and Mrs Bird waited and there was the baby. Mr Bird was very excited. It's junior. He shouted, what a beautiful baby. Junior open his mouth. It was a big mouth, it was full of teeth and that's the funniest looking baby I ever saw said Mrs Bird, something is wrong. I don't think he's our baby at all. He's in our nest so he must be ours. Said Mr Bird, his mouth is open. That means he's hungry. When our baby is hungry, you feed him. Mr and Mrs Bird went away to get some food for Junior. Mr Bird brought a pink warm Mrs Bird brought a green, warm Junior eight both warms in one gulp. Then he opened his mouth wide again. We have to get Junior lots more to eat set. Mr and Mrs Bird, hour after hour, day after day they brought food. Virginia. Mrs Bird got berries and cherries. She got butterflies and caterpillars, she got Dragonflies and mosquitoes. She got ladybugs and tiger beetles. Mr Bird got crickets and spiders, he got grasshoppers and snails, he got red ants, he got black ants, he got sent to Pete's too. What kind of bird eats so much. Said Mrs Bird, it doesn't matter. Said Mr Bird, he's still hungry and we have to feed him. Weeks went by. Junior never stopped eating and he never stopped growing. He grew bigger and bigger and bigger. Finally, Junior got so big that Mr Bird said it's too crowded up here. Junior has to leave the nest. It is time for him to fly away. You're right. Said Mrs Bird, the time has come, we must show him how to fly. Mrs Bird pushed and pushed. Mr Bird showed Junior how to fly. Jump into the air like this, then flap your wings. Junior got ready. He took a big breath and jumped up, up, up into the air. He went, flap your wings, yelled Mrs Bird, flap your wings yelled, Mr Bird Junior flapped and flapped but it didn't do any good. He didn't have any wings down, down down when Junior down into the water splash, it was cool and wet in the water. It was just right. Virginia, you know, said Mrs Bird, I don't think Junior was a bird at all. It doesn't matter. Mr Burt said he's happy now and just look at him. Swim the end.