Once upon a time a mother duck sat hatching her eggs but was very bored as no one came to see her. But one day the eggs began to crack and tall the little ducklings peeped out. "Cheep,cheep," they said, "What a big world!" "Quack, quack," said the mother duck, happily.
For two hundred years, Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling has been a childhood favorite all over the world. Now Robert Ingpen brings his spectacular adaptation to new generations of readers. Born bigger and different than the other hatchlings, the ugly duckling is ridiculed by his brothers and sisters, rejected by the other ducks, and eventually shunned by his own mother. The little b…