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The Ugly Duckling - ebook
The Ugly Duckling - ebook
The egg of swan gets mixed up with the eggs of a mother duck. Four eggs hatch and one of the babies looks different than the others. As it is growing up the fourth baby is teased and called ugly. After a year of teasing and exile from the ducks the “ugly duckling” grows up to be a beautiful swan. The audio EPUB includes every word in the book and a musical background.
Kategoria: | Juvenile Literature |
Język: | Angielski |
Zabezpieczenie: |
Watermark
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ISBN: | 978-0-7396-0125-9 |
Rozmiar pliku: | 35 MB |
FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI
One, two, three . . . and three charming baby ducks
popped their heads out. They looked around them
with amazement and said to their mama,
“How wide the world seems! How high is the sky?
The trees are so green. Green’s good for the eye!
You’ll find much for wonder. Peep, peep. Peep, peep.
And joys without number. Peep, peep. Peep, peep.
The meadow is endless. This air is so clear.
The pond is tremendous. There‘s nothing to fear.”
“My dears, how nice you’re all here.”
“Quack, quack. Quack, quack.”That is, all but one.
“If only this last egg would burst, we could all go in the
water. But it’s so large.”
The mama duck sat and sat, but the egg didn’t burst.
After a few days, an old duck came to pay her a visit.
“Quack, quack, quack, you sure have been on that egg a
long time, Mrs. Duck. Must be a turkey. Heh . . . heh . . .
heh . . . Might as well quit and start teaching your
ducklings how to swim.”
“I think I’ll sit on it just a little longer.” And with that,
there came a peculiar quack. “Quack, quack” . . .
and the great egg burst!
Out came the biggest, ugliest duckling anyone had ever
seen. O, how all the ducks laughed at him! Ha, Ha, Ha.
“He’ll never learn how to swim.
We’re ashamed to be his kin.
He’s so big and grey, that color of clay.
O, who wants him?”
“Perhaps he is a turkey chick, but he’ll go in the water
even if I have to push him in myself.”
Really, though, he swam as well as any of them, and
sang as well, too:
“It’s lovely to swim. To skim over ripples.
To dive for a nibble of bread. It’s lovely to slide
To glide on the water, or let it close over your head.”