Chicken Little

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In Season 6, Episode 26 of the Golden Girls, "Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser" (May 4, 1991), Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia perform a musical of the folk tale. [27] [28] [29] Oh, Goosie-Brucie,” Henny-Penny began, “the sky is falling! The sky is falling! We must alert the king!” 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. [10] Each story there is presented as if it were a separate book, and in this case had two illustrations by Harrison Weir. In reality the story is a repetition of the Chambers narration in standard English, except that the dialect phrase "so she gaed, and she gaed, and she gaed" is retained and the cause of panic is mistranslated as "the clouds are falling". Because of the mixed and negative reception the film got, Mark Dindal didn't like how it became, only to see the film as an old shame and the rejection of the original plot still haunts him to this day, as he puts it:

Chandler, Peleg W. (1844). The Morals of Freedom: An Oration delivered Before the Authorities of the City of Boston July 4, 1844. Boston, MA: John H. Eastburn. pp. 29. OCLC 982157. 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 following are some lyrics which genuinely refer or allude to the story:Note: The decision was made to consolidate all Disney publications under the name Walt Disney Company. This profile is for Walt Disney, the characters he created, and the company he founded. Any questions, please ask in the Librarian's Group. Chambers, Robert (1842). Popular Rhymes, Fireside Stories, and Amusements of Scotland. Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers. pp.51–52. OCLC 316602150. Thiele’s story contains many features of the story we mentioned in our plot summary above, although it’s a falling nut rather than an acorn which causes the chaos. The End of the World The Sky Is Falling, folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 20C (including former type 2033), in which storytellers from around the world make light of paranoia and mass hysteria, selected and edited by D. L. Ashliman, 1999

What I love about this book is that it can be read and enjoyed with young children, but for older children, it can be a springboard into discussions based on a variety of subjects such as vocabulary (with words such as ‘ predators’, ‘ corral’, ‘ preposterous’), other languages, folk tales, topical issues and scientific concepts, introduced by the sky itself, ‘ I am a blanket of gas held by the pull of gravity. I do not fall’. The last Disney film to have a pan and scan for its US home release. Although it only appeared on its Disney Movie Club VHS release. 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. Each story there is presented as if it were a separate book, and in this case had two illustrations by Harrison Weir. In reality the story is a repetition of the Chambers narration in standard English, except that the dialect phrase "so she gaed, and she gaed, and she gaed" is retained and the cause of panic is mistranslated as "the clouds are falling". There was once a big farm near a vast field, and here there lived a hen named Penny. She was great friends with everyone, and those who knew her gave her many names.

The story and its name

Li, Xinghua, "Communicating the "incommunicable green": a comparative study of the structures of desire in environmental advertising in the United States and China", PhD diss., p.81, University of Iowa, 2010. Goosie-Brucie wanted to protect his fowl friends, and he wanted to join them on their journey to the nearby palace, but he had a question about the sky above. She ran around in circles for a while, calmed herself, and then got right to waddling—she had to alert the king! Halliwell, James Orchard (1849). Popular rhymes and nursery tales: a sequel to the Nursery rhymes of England. London: John Russell Smith. pp. 29–30. OCLC 3155930.