The Sky Is Falling, also known as Chicken Little, Chicken Licken or Henny Penny is an old, classical fable of unknown origin about a chicken who believes the sky is falling. The phrase has also become used to indicate a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. ...

Basic plot

There are many versions of the story, but the basic premise is that a chicken called Chicken Little, Chicken Licken or Henny Penny believes the sky is falling down beacuse an acorn (or in some versions a pebble that falls from a roof) falls on his (or, sometimes, her) head. He decides to tell the King, and on his journey meets other animals who join him in his quest. In most retellings, the other animals have similarly rhyming names, such as Goosey Loosey, Ducky Lucky, Henny Penny, and Turkey Lurkey. In the end of the story, all of the animals are tricked and eaten by Foxy Loxy.

-Sometimes Chicken Little, sometimes Henny Penny

-Sometimes corn, sometimes pebble

-Different endings

Characters

Morale

-You should not be so gullible OR

-"Don't be afraid"

Adaptation

- Many books, different illustrators

- See Disney's Chicken Little