BR 1-09: Chicken Licken

“ He looked up at the blue sky.  “Oh no!” he said. “The sky must be falling.” ” (p. 13)

Chicken Licken

Chicken Licken thinks the sky is falling down and runs to warn the king, but are he and his friends running into danger? This book's story is heart warming story, so I like it. If you read this book, you can't stop laughing. However this story has something important in a book. Please try to read. When I watched this book in the first time, I think that I can't predict this book's story. However I was attracted for some reason for this book. I don't know why. Chicken Licken is very cute. I don't know why he think about such thing. However I can understand his feeling surely. Chicken Licken is a very old folk tale. no one knows who first wrote it, but it may come from a similar story in the Jataka- a collection of Buddhist tales. That version of the story features a rabbit instead of a chicken.

This book is Usborne first reading, it is level three. This story was retold by Russell Punter. It is short story and little sentences (about 50 pages) so I think that it is easy to read. I recommend you to read this book.

Punter, Russell.  (2007) Chicken Licken. London, England: Usborne.

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