There are many CDs, films, novels, and songs titled "The Sky is Falling", but the majority refer to the idiomatic use of the phrase rather than to the fable from which it derives. The moral to be drawn changes, depending on the version.

[note 1]. I must run and tell the lion about it, - says Chicken One day while she is walking an acorn falls from a … [29] In 2007 American singer and composer Gary Bachlund set the text of Margaret Free's reading version of "Chicken Little" (The Primer, 1910) for high voice and piano.

She likes Several parents on our Facebook Group. And one day while he was out walking, up in the sky a bird flew over and it dropped an acorn, and the acorn fell down and-- bip-- bopped him on his head.
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For other uses, see. This was Brian Seward's The Acorn - the true story of Chicken Licken. There are several Western versions of the story, of which the best-known concerns a chick that believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head.

[37], The Br'er Rabbit story, "Brother Rabbit Takes Some Exercise", is closer to the Eastern versions. The hare starts a stampede among the other animals until a lion halts them, investigates the cause of the panic and restores calm. Fearmongering – whether justified or not – can sometimes elicit a societal response called Chicken Little syndrome, described as "inferring catastrophic conclusions possibly resulting in paralysis". In all versions they are eaten by the fox, although in different circumstances. [26] In 1998, there was Joy Chaitin and Sarah Stevens-Estabrook's equally light-hearted musical version of the fable, "Henny Penny". In his note to the score Bachlund makes it clear that he intends a reference to alarmism and its tragic consequences.[30]. In the United States, the most common name for the story is "Chicken Little", as attested by illustrated books for children dating from the early 19th century. - It hit me on the head, so I know it must be so, - says Chicken Little. It was followed in 1850 by "The wonderful story of Henny Penny" in Joseph Cundall's compilation, The Treasury of pleasure books for young children. Learn and have fun with Worldstory.Net. – have been applied to people accused of being unreasonably afraid, or those trying to incite an unreasonable fear in those around them.

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Alternatively, the last one, usually Cocky Lockey, survives long enough to warn the chick, who escapes. She likes to look at the trees. [36] In this version, the animal stampede is halted by a bear, rather than a lion, and the ending has been changed from the Tibetan original. In Britain and its other former colonies, it is best known as "Henny Penny" and "Chicken Licken", titles by which it also went in the United States. After this point, there are many endings. John Greene Chandler (1815-1879), an illustrator and wood engraver from Petersham, Massachusetts, published an illustrated children's book titled The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little in 1840. - I do, - says Foxey Loxey. - asks the fox. Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States as Chicken Little and sometimes as Chicken Licken, is a European folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes that the world is coming to an end. Before Lightnin' Hopkins' "Henny Penny Blues" from the 1940s, there was a 1906 comic strip version. - asks Ducky Lucky. One day while she was walking an acorn fell from a tree, and hit the top of her little head. [28] It is a tale of mixed motivations as certain creatures (including some among the 'good guys') take advantage of the panic caused by Chicken Licken.

- How do you know that? In the most familiar, a fox invites them to its lair and then eats them all. Chicken Little liked wandering about in the woods. [16] In this Chicken-licken was startled when "an acorn fell on her bald pate" and encounters the characters Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander, Turkey-lurkey and Fox-lox. [27] Designed for between six and a hundred junior actors, it has additional characters as optional extras: Funky Monkey, Sheepy Weepy, Mama Llama, Pandy Handy and Giraffy Laughy (plus an aggressive oak-tree).

Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries;[1] it continues to be referred to in a variety of media. For other uses, see, "Chicken Little" redirects here. Dim-witted Chicken Little is convinced by him that the sky is falling and whips the farmyard into mass hysteria, which the unscrupulous fox manipulates for his own benefit. - The sky is falling, - says Henny Penny. - Run, run. - Do you know where he lives?

We have based our version on Henny-Penny by Joseph Jacobs. - May I come with you? Chicken Little: The Sky is Falling © Written by Tasha Guentherand illustrated by Leanne Guenther Fairy tale based on the original story first collected by Danish librarian Just Mathias Thiele. The characters included Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Daddles, Goosie Poosie, and an unnamed tod (fox). This is Chicken Little Story.

[10] In Thiele's untitled account, a nut falls on Kylling Kluk's back and knocks him over.

In 1849, a "very different" English version was published under the title "The Story of Chicken-Licken" by Joseph Orchard Halliwell.


- Oh, Henny Penny, the sky is falling and I am going to the lion to tell him about it. have been lobbying us to publish this fast-paced and popular story. The phrase "The sky is falling!" - How do you know it? There have also been a number of musical settings. The following are some lyrics which genuinely refer or allude to the story: A very early example containing the basic motif and many of the elements of the tale is some 25 centuries old and appears in the Buddhist scriptures as the Daddabha Jataka (J 322).

The chick decides to tell the king and on its journey meets other animals (mostly other fowl) which join it in the quest. - Where are you going?

Chicken Little likes to walk in the woods.