# The Uglified Ducky

**Author:** Willy Claflin
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2008
**Genre:** Fairy Tale/Folklore
**ISBN-13:** `9780874838589`
**ISBN-10:** `0874838584`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-uglified-ducky
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale, The ugly duckling, in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty.

## Themes

- fairy tales
- ducks, fiction
- family life, fiction
- moose, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Texas Bluebonnet Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2011 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2011 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2011 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Texas — [source: Texas Library Association — Texas Bluebonnet Award past winners, 2011 winner (grades 3-6)](https://txla.org/tools-resources/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/past-tba-winners/)

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