Publisher's Synopsis
The Ugly Duckling (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a children's tale by Danish poet and writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The Ugly Duckling was first published in 1843. The story tells of a swan born into a family of ducks and the other farm's animals believe that doesn't belong with them. Wherever he goes the Ugly Duckling, encounters animals that shun him because is different. After a dreadfully cold and lonely winter the ugly duckling, now having fully grown and matured, is unable to endure a life of solitude and hardship any more and decides to throw himself at the flock of swans. He is shocked when the swans welcome and accept him, only to realize by looking at his reflection in the water realizes that he wasn't a duck after all...
