"Bobby the Bobolink Helps To Rescue His Proud Friend" is a wonderful illustrated Picture Book for ages 3-8. A beauty pageant has bobolinks and ducks alike tweeting with excitement. Primping and smoothing abounds, all the feathered creatures see themselves as superior to the next. Quacking and squawking leads to unkind words between the contestants, leaving some to feel insecure about their own beauty. When human hunters mark the ducks as prey, Angie Duck is injured. Bobby Bobolink chooses to help her despite protests from others. In helping her with the aid of unlikely companions, they all learn that God makes no mistakes and that no one living thing is better or more deserving than the other. The first book in the "Shared Values Collection."