Life Cycle of a Swan Book Cover

What's the Book About?

Look at this cygnet. It will grow up to be a swan. How will it change?

Book Details

  • Band:
  • Scheme: Rigby Star
  • Type: Non-Fiction
  • Author: Monica Hughes

Reviews from Our Readers

Chloe Zuiderwijk (Age 5)

Rating: 5 / 5

This book is about
This book is about the life cycle of a swan.

The main characters are
Swans and cygnets.

My favourite part of the book is
When cygnets are hatched.

I would also like to say
That I would like to hold a little cygnet.

Ethan D (Age 4)

Rating: 4 / 5

This book is about
The cygnets hatch from the eggs. They are grey. Their necks get longer and their feathers become white. Their bills are orange. Then the cygnets become swans.

The main characters are
Swans and cygnets.

My favourite part of the book is
The pictures on the last page showing the eggs that become a cygnet and then a swan.

I would also like to say
The girl swan is called a pen and the boy swan is called a cob.

Kaylynn (Age 5)

Rating: 5 / 5

This book is about
How cygnets grow up to be swans

The main characters are
Non fiction so no characters

My favourite part of the book is
I liked the cygnets the best, they were really cute

I would also like to say
This was a really interesting book with lovely pictures

Tess (Age 6)

Rating: 4 / 5

This book is about
How cygnets grow up to be swans.

The main characters are
swans, and cygnets

My favourite part of the book is
that swans run across the water to start to fly

I would also like to say
When the mummy pen leaves the nest, the daddy cob takes care of the eggs.

Kaia (Age 5)

Rating: 5 / 5

This book is about
It tells you about how a swan grows

The main characters are
The swans!

My favourite part of the book is
When the babies hatch

I would also like to say
It was very good

holly (Age 8)

Rating: 5 / 5

This book is about
a swan

My favourite part of the book is
all of it

I would also like to say
it is a very good book

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