Little Red came out of an egg in the duck's nest but "Peep-Peep" was a strange greeting to his new family. "Quack-Quack" said the mother duck and the six yellow ducklings as they stared at him. His feet were not webbed and his coat was a rusty red. He was not a duckling at all. He was a little red rooster!

Naturally Little Red was not very happy with his duck family. He couldn't swim with them on the pond, and he didn't understand their quacklings. So one day when he heard a call, "Cock-a-doodle-doo" from over the hill and it seemed a friendly greeting, he ran off to find a new home.

Little Red's adventurous search for new friends makes just the kind of picture book little children like best. 

From the dust jacket