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| Love Chicken Licken's boots! The other animals' clothes are fun too. |
March 2015, Little Tiger Press, 32 pages, Paperback, Review copy
Content: mild to major peril, hysteria, humour
Summary from Little Tiger Press
When an acorn drops on Chicken Licken’s head, he thinks the sky is
falling and dashes off to tell the King. But instead he finds Foxy Loxy .
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Is Chicken Licken about to become Chicken Lunch?
Nayu's thoughts
I vaguely remember this tale from when I was
little, about a chick who thinks the sky falls on his head, but I
couldn't remember why he thought that was the case or what happened
next. This retelling in cheerful colours made me laugh a lot and
oddly think of the book The Woman Who Swallowed A Fly by Pam Adams, where the woman swallows a lot of animals for crazy reasons.
It was the sheer number of animals who were affected by Chicken
Licken's melodrama, and how they panicked over it. The fox gave me
the creeps, but thankfully no bird gets harmed by the end. It's
reminds me of the tale of the boy who cried wolf, in that a lot of
drama happens initially for no reason, and then there is a genuine
reason to be alarmed.
Suggested read
Yesterday I reviewed another fairytale retelling, The Three Little Pigs by Mara Allperin and Ag Jatkowska (Children's, Picture book, 10E/10E) link to follow
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