The Ugly Ducking The Ugly Ducking is a level 4 book in the Usborne First Reading series. And it is a very famous story in Japanese children too. There has a good message that if you spend an unhappy days now, that is not all about your life. Someday, you are able to become a beautiful swan. One day, a duck lays five small eggs and huge one. Later on, five pretty yellow baby ducks came out from small eggs. After a while, a big ugly duck came out of the biggest egg. The ugly duck was always picked on, and his mother says "You'er really ugly. I wish you were gone somewhere far." Then the ugly duck ran away from his familly. However, one day...