Four stories, all featuring Pelly the Pelican and Peak the Peacock, are contained in this book. In “Two Surprises,” the two friends play a guessing game while “Tick Tock” tells about Pelly’s efforts to make a cuckoo clock as a gift for Peak’s birthday. In “Baking Day,” Peak decides to make an upside-down cake and in “A Fish Story,” Pelly and Peak each discover that they are good at something special.

Young readers will enjoy the antics of the peacock and the pelican and are certain to appreciate the friendship between the two birds. Older readers will find they can read the stories independently.

This “I Can Read” book, edited for Weekly Reader Books, was originally published under the title “Pelly and Peak.”

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A pelican and a peacock like surprises but they like each other better.