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まいごになったあひるの子

The Lost Duckling

Tharul wants to help a lost and injured duckling. He takes the duckling home, but they only find more trouble there!

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Tharul wants to help a lost and injured duckling. He takes the duckling home, but they only find more trouble there!

This free chapter contains 1 learner-friendly sentences. The complete book has 8 chapters.

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Publisher: Room to Read / StoryWeaver
Creators: Egambaram Kumudini (writer), Thanuja Dilhani (illustrator), Alisha Berger (English bridge translator)
This edition: Japanese Global Digital Library edition republished and aligned to its English GDL bridge edition; blank illustration-only pages omitted, source spacing normalized for natural Japanese display, page layout adapted, and Storyglot learning notes added. The Japanese translator is not identified in the EPUB.

Original story ↗ · Source edition ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗

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