I’m looking for a children’s story about a boy who leaves home or is lost and is adopted by a family of ducks (or geese?). He wants to learn to fly, like the ducks do, but has no wings, so he builds wings from mud, sticks and leaves. The illustrations are in a sepia tone. My wife read this book as a girl. She is 33 years old. She doesn’t think there were words – only pictures.
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Possibly ‘Arnold of the Ducks’ by Mordicai Gerstein (1983)?
“Mistaken for a fish by a nearsighted pelican and deposited with a family of ducks, young Arnold learns to swim, fly, and eat like a duck until his curiosity finally leads him back to his human family.”