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Folktale and Fairy Tale Resources in the CRC: Ugly Duckling
This guide will connect you with the folktales, fairy tales, variants, and fractured versions of traditional tales from around the world.
In this retelling of the Ugly Duckling, set on the African continent, the duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan
The Ugly Ducking
This illustration came from:
Andersen, Hans Christian. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Milo Winter, illustrator. Valdemar Paulsen, translator. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, [c1916].