Willie has just gotten his first pet, Hilda, who is unlike any pet he’s ever seen. Hilda is not a dog, like his brother Danny’s pet. Hilda is a duck. One day while playing, Hilda squeezes through a hole in the neighbor’s fence, runs through the garden, and into the nearby pond. Will Willie ever get Hilda back? 

About the Authors

Dr. (Ph. D) Louis Hanic has served as a professor at both Dalhousie University in Halifax, Novia Scotia, and at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He has spent a lifetime painting, his favorite hobby.

Shirley Marie Hanic has worked as a secondary school teacher, a girls’ counselor, and English teacher throughout her career. In her spare time, she enjoys writing short stories and poems. She wrote the story of Hilda based on events that happened to the couple in the 1980s, when Hilda brought her family to live near the pond that abutted their property.