by Kamila Shamsie
Haymarket Books
1/4/2022, hardcover
SKU: 9781642595758
On the farm, some eggs are hatching. A flock of sweet ducklings are popping out but one duckling looks different from all the others. Kamila Shamsie retells The Ugly Duckling with great empathy and a warm heart. Cast out and all alone, the odd duckling will need all her bravery and curiosity to survive. Her journey is a search for belonging, but what she finds is the right to be different.
Target age: 6 to 9
Be sure to check out the other books in the Fairy Tale Revolution series by Haymarket Books.
Reviews:
"[A] moving, poetic tale [that] celebrates an outsider's adventurous spirit in a world that's quick to judge."-- Eithne Farry, Sunday Express