The Ugly Duckling audiobook for kids
Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
Adapted
by Jeff Capel
Summer had arrived in
the countryside. The fields were green and the birds sang from
morning until night. At the old manor
house, the ducks spent their days
dabbling about in the moat hoping that one of the children might arrive with some breadcrumbs or sitting by the water’s edge preening their feathers in the warm sunshine.
In a quiet place, hidden by long grass and leaves, a
mother duck was welcoming her new
babies into the world. One by one her eggs were hatching. She listened for the
tap tap tap of little beaks against eggshell,
then crack crack crack
as the ducklings’ yellow heads peeped
out, then ‘cheep’, ‘cheep’, ‘cheep’ as the youngsters looked
around at their big new world. ‘You’re the prettiest ducklings I’ve ever
seen,’ the mother said.
