A quick-to-read Dick King Smith about a bird who is half-swan, half-goose. It's a bit of an odd set up for a kid's book, the 'you are a love child and your father is not who you think he is, but you must never tell anyone', but it's all very light touch. The geese tease him, the swans attack him, but he makes friends with some voles and rats, and makes the Queen of England herself smile.

[I'd expected that at some point as a made swoose he would go back and see him mum and the goslings who teased him again, but he doesn't, the book ends with him just living happily ever after at the palace.] ( )