The Ugly Duckling By Ana...... With a recording

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There once was a duck that had 6 little eggs to look after. Now this duck wasn't just a normal duck though, she was the royal duck. She wasn't going to be cooked or anything. She was the princess’ special friend, well a duck friend.

As soon as the princess found out that her special duck had eggs, she got some more ducks to keep her company. By the time, the first crack appeared on the first egg, the princess had 3 ducks and 6 eggs waiting to come. The thing that was strange though was that the 6th egg was grey, but the rest were fine, normal. The duck keep it warm though.

Soon the eggs started to hatch one by one. All except the 6th one that was grey. The duck keep on sitting there, she was certain that this duckling was supposed to be born. She sat there and sat there and sat there, until one day, the egg started to hatch. The egg cracked open and out came a grey duck that was bigger and stronger than the rest.

Everyone was teasing the duckling none stop. One day, he went to the pond with his mother and a duck came up to him and shouted, “Get out of here, you don’t belong!” and hit the baby duckling. His mother ran up and shouted “Go away, he does belong, how dare you even think that!”

He got teased everyone day and soon he sensed his mother starting to dislike him. So one night, he decided to leave, he hopped onto the top of a plane and stayed there until the plane landed. He didn’t know where in the world he was. He jumped down and started to waddle, he waddled and waddled and waddled till he couldn't waddle anymore. The teased duckling stopped at a pond, by that time, it was the middle of the night.

During the night, it was cold, it was lonely and scary. The poor, cold thing stayed there all winter long. He was cold and in the snow asleep. When he woke, it was spring and he could see long necked swans around him. He looked down in the water to see the ugly brown thing that he expected to see, but it wasn't there. He could see a white long necked swan. The duckling was actually a swan!!


The kids that came to see the swans said, “Mother, Father the new one is the most beautiful. The swans didn’t mind at all that the new swan was the best. The most important thing though was that they were all very kind to him. He finally belonged somewhere.

The End! :-)