The Ugly Duckling
- First published:
- 19th century
- Languages: Danish, English, French, Japanese, Polish, Spanish
- Content type: FictionJuvenile
It was a beautiful summer day. How beautiful the countryside was in summer! Among the reeds of a sunny little pond was a duck, sitting on a nest full of eggs. On the banks of a canal on a hot summer's day, while the other ducks were fishing not far away, sat a tired-out, white-feathered mother duck, who huffed and puffed and quacked and clucked............
Provenance
Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Fairies”.
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Editions
Open Library reports 122 editions; 1 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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Ugly Duckling in Signed English | June 1974 | Clerc | English |
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Juvenile fiction
- Children's fiction
- Folklore
- Juvenile literature
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Fairy tales
- Drama
- Translations into English
- legends
- Readers
- Child and youth fiction
- Spanish language
- Folklore & Mythology
- Cartoons and comics
- Children's stories, English
- Self-perception
- Children's literature
- Literature and fiction, juvenile
- Reading materials
- Toy and movable books
- Picture books for children
- Literatura juvenil
- Cuentos de hadas
- Children - fairy tales
- Children - fiction & literature
- sign language
- Myths & fables
- Ugliness
- Children's stories, Danish
- Children's stories, Polish
- Classic Fairy Tales
- Comic and Graphic Books
- Deaf
- Deaf, books for the
- Deaf, education
- Ducklings
- Ducks
- Ducks, fiction
- Fiction - animals
Identifiers & provenance
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- OCLC
- Open Library work
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Cataloging notes
- Open Library reports 122 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
- Catalog id
- openlibrary-work:OL15155002W
- Edition coverage
- Representative plus work aggregates
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