Under the Green Willow
Elizabeth Coatsworth, Janina Domanska
Hardcover
(The Macmillan Company, March 15, 1971)
"There is a place I know, says the sun, where ducks and ducklings, turtles, trout, catfish with whiskers, and young eels, all crowd together in the water under a willow tree waiting for crumbs. The duck kick the turtles out of the way, the catfish bite the duck's toes, the trout whisk a crumb away before the others see it, the little eels try to take the food out of the turtles' horny beaks. There they all are, in the clear water, under the green willow."