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Chicken Little
retold by Elinor Chamas
illustrated by David Merrell
Fiction
www.heinemann.com
ISBN-13: 978-0-325-01624-5
ISBN-10: 0-325-01624-0
Book 21
Level E
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Chicken Little
Retold by Elinor Chamas
Heinemann
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Portsmouth, NH 03801–3912
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ISBN-13: 978-0-325-01624-5
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Credits
Illustrations: David Merrell
Photographs: pp. 17–24 (Narrator 1) © Vanessa Tropeano; (Narrator 2) © Robert Reynolds/
LightShed Photography Studio/www.lightshedphoto.com.
Printed in China
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Chicken Little
retold by Elinor Chamas
illustrated by David Merrell
A Classic Tale
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“Oh, no!”
said Chicken Little.
“The sky is falling!
I will go to tell the king.”
So Chicken Little went
to tell the king.
Ouch!
Chicken
Little was walking
in the woods.
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Along came Henny Penny.
“The sky is falling,”
said Chicken Little.
So Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
went to tell the king.
“Oh, no!”
said Henny Penny.
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Along came Ducky Lucky.
“The sky is falling,”
said Chicken Little.
So Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
went to tell the king.
“Oh, no!”
said Ducky Lucky.
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Along came Goosey Loosey.
“The sky is falling,”
said Chicken Little.
“Oh, no!”
said Goosey Loosey.
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So Goosey Loosey
and Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
went to tell the king.
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So Goosey Loosey
and Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
looked up at the sky.
They looked and looked.
Along came Foxy Loxy.
“The sky is falling,”
said Chicken Little.
“Oh!” said Foxy Loxy.
“Let’s look up at the sky.”
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Foxy Loxy looked at
Goosey Loosey
and Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little.
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“Maybe the sky is not falling,”
said Chicken Little.
“Oh!” said Henny Penny
and Ducky Lucky
and Goosey Loosey.
“The sky is not falling.”
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So Chicken Little
and Henny Penny
and Ducky Lucky
and Goosey Loosey
looked at Foxy Loxy.
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“Run!”
“Run!”
“Run!”
“Run!”
said
said
said
said
Chicken Little.
Henny Penny.
Ducky Lucky.
Goosey Loosey.
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They ran and ran.
They ran all the way home.
Chicken Little
And they never did
tell the king that
the sky was falling.
The Play
Characters
Narrator 1
Ducky Lucky
Narrator 2
Loosey Goosey
Chicken Little
Foxy Loxy
Henny Penny
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Narrator 1
Henny Penny
Chicken Little was walking
in the woods.
Oh, no!
Chicken Little
So Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
went to tell the king.
Oh, no!
The sky is falling! I will
go to tell the king.
Narrator 2
Narrator 1
Narrator 1
Along came Ducky Lucky.
So Chicken Little went
to tell the king.
Chicken Little
Narrator 2
Along came Henny Penny.
The sky is falling.
Ducky Lucky
Oh, no!
Chicken Little
The sky is falling.
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Narrator 1
Narrator 2
So Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
went to tell the king.
So Goosey Loosey
and Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
went to tell the king.
Narrator 2
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Along came Goosey
Loosey.
Along came Foxy Loxy.
Chicken Little
Chicken Little
The sky is falling.
The sky is falling.
Goosey Loosey
Foxy Loxy
Oh, no!
Oh!
Let’s look up
at the sky.
Narrator 1
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Narrator 1
So Goosey Loosey
and Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little
looked up at the sky.
They looked and looked.
Narrator 2
Foxy Loxy looked at
Goosey Loosey
and Ducky Lucky
and Henny Penny
and Chicken Little.
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Chicken Little
Maybe the sky
is not falling.
Henny Penny
Ducky Lucky
Goosey Loosey
Oh!
The sky is not falling.
Narrator 1
So Chicken Little
and Henny Penny
and Ducky Lucky
and Goosey Loosey
looked at Foxy Loxy.
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Chicken Little
Run!
Henny Penny
Run!
Ducky Lucky
Run!
Goosey Loosey
Run!
Narrator 2
They ran and ran.
They ran all the way home.
Narrator 1
And they never did
tell the king that
the sky was falling.
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