The Ugly Duckling Returns

After Happily Ever After

by Tony Bradman, Sarah Warburton (Illustrations)

It's been a while since the Ugly Duckling turned into a Swan, and life has been good. Now he's a famous model, but does being the biggest celebrity in the Forest mean he can't help save it?

Genres: Childrens

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

TONY BRADMAN graduated from Cambridge University and worked in journalism for many years as an editor and reviewer. Now a full-time author, he has produced several successful anthologies for young readers for Random House Children's Books, including three focusing exclusively on football: the FOOTBALL FEVER titles.

Reviews

[Gail Sacharski · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like fairy tales and twists on fairy tales which is what this book sounded like. The former Ugly Duckling is now the Beautiful Swan riding through his old stomping grounds in a limo & disliking the traffic jams polluting the atmosphere. He investigates a rally being run by the former Rapunzel that is trying to clean up the forest. He decides he can help as the media is always asking him to make appearances, but the only thing the media wants is to take pictures of his beauty & swoon over him. They end up trampling the booths at the rally & ignoring the real reason for being there. He feels quite guilty that he only made matters worse, but then he comes up with another idea. Will it work? Will the media finally listen to him and spread the word about pollution so they can get the help they need? Being beautiful isn't always all it's quacked up to be. It wasn't quite what I was hoping for, but there are other books in this series so I may try a couple more to see if I like them better.