Book Review 3

I read "The Ugly Duckling" written by Hans Andersen this week. It's called "Minikui Ahirunoko" in Japanese. Of course, I have read this book before written in Japanese. It's quite famous story, and very interesting for me. And it's written by easy words, so it's not so hard to read.

One day some ducklings were born in very beautiful country. They were all pretty ducklings, but only one was different from others. He is very big and ugly duckling. Because of he was ugly, no one wanted to speak to him or to go near him. Even his mother, brothers and sisters were not kind to him. It makes him so sad, so he ran out of his hometown.

Later, he met some geese, and they said to him "We like you." But they died by shooting guns. And then, he met some people and animals, but they all not so kind. He had very hard times.

After the time, he was bigger than before, and he could fly high up in the sky. Then he saw beautiful white swans, and thought "I'll go to them, but I'm so ugly so they'll kill me." But he wanted to go with them, so he put his head down near the water, and he saw...! He saw his own body, it was not the body of a fat, ugly duckling. In fact, he had come from a swan's egg. He is very young and beautiful swan!

So now, he getting along with some beautiful swans and little children. He is the most beautiful and popular swan, everybody said so.