The sky is Falling!

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In this humorous version of the traditional tale, Chicken Little panics when an acorn falls on her head and sets off a dance frenzy among the other chickens, and while squirrel and the other animals understand what really happened, they soon join in the dancing--because it is fun.

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Cha-cha Chickens submitted by FordAlpha on June 26, 2018, 9:03pm "The Sky Is Falling!" is one of Mark Teague's series of fractured fairy tales (others include "The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf" and "Jack and the Beanstalk and the French Fries"). It's probably the simplest of the lot, plot-wise, and the thinnest in substance. Hit on the head by an acorn (launched from Fox's slingshot), Chicken Little assumes the sky is falling. But rather than triggering mass hysteria, as Fox had hoped (and as in the folktale), the hen's reaction sparks a poultry dance party. Though they initially think her a fool, the Squirrel, Rabbit, and Cat eventually join the fun, as does the Fox (unwittingly), until a bit of sky lands on HIS head. Though the story isn't much, the illustrations of dancing chickens are priceless. My favorite is Chicken Little doing the moonwalk.

I Don't Get It submitted by Meginator on August 20, 2021, 7:50pm I’m usually a big fan of Mark Teague’s reinventions of classic fairy tales, but this one fell a bit flat for me and I feel like I didn’t get the punchline. I did enjoy the pictures, which play off of the tale’s inherent silliness and get in some sly jokes of their own, but the story just didn’t make sense to me at all.