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The Uglified Duckling (2000)

by Willy Claflin(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: The Uglified Ducky is a spinoff from the other children's book "The Ugly Duckling." This story is about a baby moose who happens to fall asleep in a nest with five other baby duck eggs. Surprisingly, the mother duck comes back to find the one "uglified" duck among her five normal ducks. The uglified ducky has a hard time learning and falling in line as his mother duck tries to teach her ducklings how to swim, fly and waddle. After a trip to Dr. Quack, the mother duckling is right that the Uglified ducky is not like her other normal ducks. Will the Uglified ducky ever fit in? Major themes include: individuality and acceptance. I think a teacher should compare this book and "The Ugly Duckling." It would be great to find differences and similarities between these two books. S... moretudents can even write their own versions from different perspectives and even different animals.
review 2: This is a hilarious story about a moose who ends up being taken care of by a mother duck with several recently hatched ducklings. The moose is the 'uglified ducky' who cannot do anything the other ducklings can do, and that makes him very sad. This book is filled with "moose grammar" which cracked me up. A major theme of this book is finding out and accepting who you are as a person (or a moose!). This book could be used in conjunction with other books to teach children to be proud of their heritage/culture or whatever else makes them unique. You could also use it to compare/contrast fairy tale parodies for older classes. less

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