BR1-22: The Ugly Duckling

"Nobody wants me," said the Ugly Duckling. "I'm too ugly." He ran on and on.

The ugly duckling is a book in the Usborne First Reading series. It is a level 4 in the story. The mother duck has six eggs but the one egg only was huge. The egg is turkey chick. The duckling was very large and very ugly. "Nobody wants me," said the Ugly Duckling. "I'm too ugly." So he leaves his home and goes out alone into the world. When spring came, he lay in the reeds and listened to the birds sing. He came to a garden with a pond and three glorious swans. The other swans swam around him and stroked him with their beaks. He was a swan! And a family of ducks said "He's the most beautiful one of all!"


 Susanna, Davidson. (2006) The Ugly Duckling
London: Usborne First Reading. (147 / 11,816 Words)