Chicken Little: A Tale about Common Sense

Title

en_US Chicken Little: A Tale about Common Sense

en_US Famous Fables

en_US FF7

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Second printing

en_US Retold by Sarah Albee

Creator

en_US Albee, Sarah See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Harchy, Atelier Philippe

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:54Z

en_US 2013-04

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US I include this book in the collection not because I think Chicken Little should be viewed as a fable but because this volume is part of a series that is labeled Famous Fables. This twenty-page children's picture book extends onto its back endpaper with tips for parents, including strategies, discussion questions, and activities that grow out of the story. Chicken Little actually works off of a fable motif, in which an acorn falling on Chicken Little's head sets off fears that the sky is falling. Several elements in this good story are not typical of fables. One is the pleasant names given to the animals, like Ducky Lucky and Goosey Loosey. Another is the shift in the story when Foxy Loxy leads all the terrified animals to his den. A third untypical element is the coincidence that a branch happens to fall on Foxy Loxy's head as he is about to devour Goosey Loosey, and now Foxy Loxy too thinks that the sky is falling. In the end, the kind king reassures the animals that the sky is not falling.

Identifier

en_US 9781599390192

en_US 8938 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84144

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Reader's Digest Young Families

en_US Pleasantville, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F368 Ch 2006 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole