A modern fable about some peacocks and swans who allow the fear of their differences to become so great that they end up destroying each other.

Every day at the Athensville Zoo the peacocks are allowed to wander freely among the visitors, delighting and guiding kids and grownups alike, and kind, curious Plum is the peacock most proud of their responsibility. But Itch the ningbing--a type of very small marsupial--doesn't understand why those birdbrains should get so much freedom while he's all cooped up. So he plots and plots, sure that he will escape and become the zoo ambassador!

In this wordless book with interactive flaps, a little girl named Flora forms a friendship with two peacocks as the three learn to dance together.

When Prewitt the peacock's shamefully scraggly tail develops the appearance of a scary greeneyed monster, the other peacocks decide it has to go.