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Henny-Penny: The Sky is Falling! Henny-Penny is a story young children should learn early: trying to incite panic can result in opportunists like Foxy-woxy doing real harm. The iconic story was published in English Fairy Tales, retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922), illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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What does Chicken Little tell the king about the sky?
There are several Western versions of the story, of which the best-known concerns a chick which believes that the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. The chick decides to tell the king and, on its journey, meets other animals which join it in the quest.
“Oh, we must, we must!” Rooster-Booster chimed in. Ducky-Chucky bounded from the pond and joined his friends immediately. As he shook his little webbed feet free of water, he felt the warm sun dry them quickly and wondered how the sky could fall on a warm summer’s day such as this one.
Chicken Little explains to him that the sky is falling and that they’re on their way to notify the king. Foxy Loxy offers to take them to the castle where they will find the king, and the birds agree to accompany him.
A softer version of a story for children about a chicken that wanted to warn a king that the sky is falling. One day Chicken-little had gone to sleep under a rose-bush, and a cow reached over the fence and bit off the top of the rose-bush.
Read or print the fairy tale about Chicken Little or Henny-Penny: The Sky is Falling; includes crafts and children's activities to accompany the story.
One day, when something falls and hits Henny Penny on the head, she thinks that the sky is falling and she must tell the king. However, the sky really isn’t falling, and she makes a big mistake on her way to see the king.
