Margherita The Little White Duck E-Book

Mary Costantini

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

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This story was inspired by the delightful nature of Olgiata Golf Club where the ducks live in total freedom, and only one of them is white.

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Margherita The Little White Duck

Mary Costantini

Margherita The Little White Duck

Title | Margherita - The Little White Duck

Author | Mary Costantini

ISBN | 9788831608824

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This is the story of Margherita, a little white duck, and her family. She lived with her mother and father and brothers and sisters in quite a remarkable place. Their home was a small, wooden house on an island in the middle of a lake in the centre of a golf course! The golf course, situated north of Rome, was very beautiful. It had once been part of a large country estate owned by a noble family.

The golf course gave the ducks plenty of freedom. There were vast expanses of grass edged with trees and bushes where they could wander and look for food. They just had to be careful of flying golf balls which are small and very hard! In fact, their home was like a huge, private garden. Every day there was much activity with workmen driving large, noisy, grass-cutting machines up and down keeping the grass perfectly mowed for the golfers. At other times they pruned the hedges and bushes, and in the autumn they raked up all the dead leaves from under the trees, so that they would not blow all over the golf course. This was to avoid causing problems for the golfers searching for their balls.

The ducks were unconcerned with all the movement going on around them. They became used to the golfers pausing by the lake offering them treats. On seeing them, they would run forward quacking loudly, gobbling up everything from bread to chocolate biscuits! The ducklings were happy too, swimming, diving and waddling in the grass behind their mother, looking for insects.

When night fell and the tired little ducklings were quietly settled in their house, their mother would tell them a bedtime story. Margherita loved to hear the story of how they had arrived on the island, and she pleaded with her mother to tell it to them again and again. Mother began her story by telling them how she and father duck had been searching for a suitable place to make a nest. They were flying over a country area where there were groups of houses with gardens, when they saw from above a large pool with blue water. “I think that will be perfect,” said mother duck. They flew down and saw that there were low bushes near the water where they could make a nest that would be well hidden from predators. When the nest was ready mother duck laid her eggs and sat on them patiently, keeping them warm. She was preparing for the exciting moment her baby ducklings would hatch.

During this time father duck kept watch and drove away any unwanted visitors, hissing at them and flapping his wings violently until they quickly disappeared!