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It is a beautiful summer day. 

The sun shines warmly on an 

old house near a river. Behind 

the house a mother duck is 

sitting on ten eggs. "Tchick." 

One by one all the eggs break 

open.

All except one. This one is the 

biggest egg of all.

Mother duck sits and sits on 

the big egg. At last it breaks 

open, "Tchick, tchick!"

Out jumps the last baby duck. 

It looks big and strong. It is 

grey and ugly.

The next day mother duck 

takes all her little ducks to the 

river. She jumps into it. All her 

baby ducks jump in. The big 

ugly duckling jumps in too.

They all swim and play 

together. The ugly duckling 

swims better than all the other 

ducklings.

- Quack, quack! Come with me to the 

farm yard! - says mother duck to her 

baby ducks and they all follow her 

there.

The farm yard is very noisy. The poor 

duckling is so unhappy there. The hens 

peck him, the rooster flies at him, the 

ducks bite him, the farmer kicks him.

At last one day he runs away. He 

comes to a river. He sees many 

beautiful big birds swimming there. 

Their feathers are so white, their necks 

so long, their wings so pretty. The little 

duckling looks and looks at them. He 

wants to be with them. He wants to 

stay and watch them. He knows they 

are swans. Oh, how he wants to be 

beautiful like them.

Now it is winter. Everything is white 

with snow. The river is covered with ice. 

The ugly duckling is very cold and 

unhappy.

Spring comes once again. The sun 

shines warmly. Everything is fresh and 

green.

One morning the ugly duckling sees the 

beautiful swans again. He knows them. 

He wants so much to swim with them in 

the river. But he is afraid of them. He 

wants to die. So he runs into the river. 

He looks into the water. There in the 

water he sees a beautiful swan. It is he! 

He is no more an ugly duckling. He is a 

beautiful white swan.