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    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears
    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears
    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears
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    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears

    By Short Kid Stories

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    The book contains 5 fairy tales, adapted from the work of Hans Christian Andersen to be suitable for reading to children of all ages. The stories included are The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea, The Swineherd, The Emperor's New Clothes and What a Good Man Does is Always Right.

    Hans Christian Andersen was a story-telling genius, however translations of the original stories he wrote contain old and complicated language that can be difficult for modern children to understand. Some of his works are also quite dark and have endings that might be upsetting to some children.

    All stories in Tales for Young Ears have been meticulously edited to preserve as much of the original language and story-line, but in a manner that is understandable to modern children.

    The book also contains a marker after approximately every five minutes of reading. This is to provide parents or adult readers with an opportunity to pause a story at a logical break-point and return to it later, depending on circumstances.

    The book contains wonderful classic original illustrations by Edna F. Hart. Each story has one to three illustrations, depending on the length.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShort Kid Stories
    Release dateAug 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301153336
    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears
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    Short Kid Stories

    Kids love stories, they can’t get enough of them. Launching in September 2013, Short Kid Stories is a site dedicated to short stories for kids and will showcase a huge range of classic and original short stories for children, free of charge. My aim for this is simply to be the best resource available for adults looking for short stories for kids, either to read to them or for kids to read themselves.The site will allow short stories for kids to be printed, viewed online on desktops computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, emailed or sent to an e-reader device such as a Kindle. The objective is to make short stories for kids as accessible as possible.

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    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears - Short Kid Stories

    Adapted from the original stories by Hans Christian Andersen

    Illustrations by Edna F. Hart

    The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales for Young Ears

    Published by Short Kid Stories at Smashwords

    Copyright 2013 Short Kid Stories

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

    Table of Contents

    Instructions on how to use this book

    The Ugly Duckling

    The Princess and the Pea

    The Swineherd

    The Emperor’s New Clothes

    What a Good Man Does is Always Right

    About Short Kid Stories

    More Short Stories for Kids

    Calling All Children’s Writers

    Instructions on how to use this book

    As a parent of two young children, I know that reading stories to kids is one of life’s joys. All the stories in this book have been adapted to make them understandable and enjoyable by children of all ages.

    The stories are of varying length. To help parents or adult readers, the option of a natural break is included roughly every 5 minutes of reading time. The reading break is denoted by the following:

    o --- o --- o

    That way, the reading adult can decide whether to continue the story or choose to leave it for another time.

    It was great to go back and rediscover some of these old stories from the master Hans Christian Andersen. I hope parents and children will get as much enjoyment out of these stories as I did adapting them.

    Yours sincerely,

    Brian Martin

    The Ugly Duckling

    It was the summer time in the country and so beautiful. The wheat fields were golden, the oats were green, and the hay stood in great stacks in the green meadows. The stork paraded about among them on his long red legs, chatting away in a foreign language he had learned from his mother.

    All around the fields grew thick woods, and in the middle of the forest was a deep lake. Yes, it was beautiful, it was delightful in the country.

    In that wild, sunny spot stood a lovely old farmhouse surrounded by water and from the walls down to the water's edge grew great tall plants.

    In this snug place sat a duck upon her nest, watching for her eggs to hatch, but the pleasure she had felt at first was almost gone. She had begun to get tired, for the little ones were so long coming out of their shells and hardly anyone came to visit. The other ducks liked much better to

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