Six Little Ducklings

Six Little Ducklings is a story for kids written and illustrated by the American artist and Children's author Katharine Pyle who attained success with her work "The Counterpane Fairy". Better known as illustrator, notable among her more than 30 published works include "Tales of Two Bunnies", "The Christmas Angel",  "In the green forest","Prose and Verse for Children", "Stories of Humble Friends", "The Pearl Fairy Book", "Two Little Mice: and Others", and "Heroic Tales from the Norse".
Excerpts:
OLD MOTHER DUCK and her six little

ducklings lived in a hollow tree

down by the river, and here they were

all as happy as the day was long. They had the

whole of the broad bright river to swim about on,

and there was no one to bother them or drive

them about.
Mother Duck had not always lived in the hollow

tree. Once she had lived in a farmyard

back in the country and away from the river.

But she had not been very happy there. For one

thing, there was a very cross old watch-dog in the

farmyard. He was kept chained to his dog-house

through the day, and never set loose until

the other animals had gone to bed, but he used

to snap at the ducks and chickens whenever they

came near his dog-house, and that frightened

them.