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Picture Storybooks. Introducing a brillant new set of ten Ready to Read books for young children. Each familiar fairy tale is retold in a witty and engaging style, to complement chirdren's formal learning.

Eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their evil stepmother are saved by their beautiful sister.

Goose, Duck, Hen, Bird and the little chick, itself, cannot tell to whom a new hatchling belongs, but its mother knows.

The classic tale of how an ugly duckling is teased by the other animals and leaves home searching for a place to belong. As time passes he discovers that he has grown into a beautiful swan.

Born bigger and different than the other hatchlings, the ugly duckling is ridiculed by his brothers and sisters, rejected by the other ducks, and eventually shunned by his own mother. The little bird leaves his home, embarking on a brave journey through hecklers, hunters, and cruel seasons-only to discover that the beauty he was seeking was inside him all along.

Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet.

When his beloved grandfather is killed in a storm while leading the swan flock south for the winter, Moonshadow is reassured by his father that the flock will go on with Grandfather always in their hearts.

When Mother Ducks eggs hatch, one little duckling is clumsy and noisyand very ugly! And no matter how hard he tries to fit in, the other animals just laugh at him. Will the ugly duckling ever find a friend?

The ugly duckling finds that as a beautiful swan he cannot get the right kind of publicity needed for the anti-pollution campaign, so he decides to change back to his old self to help save the forest.

When the campers go on a special night-time hike, Rachel and Kristy look for Sophia the snow swan fairy's swan.