Ages 5-8. People listen in awe as Silly Chicken struts through his dusty village mumbling, "Tuck-tuck-tuck-tuck-tuck." "What does it mean?" they whisper. No one seems to know. When a clever man teaches the bird to speak, Silly Chicken squawks, "The earth is going to swallow us up!" The villagers scatter, desperate to escape certain doom, before realizing the danger is only a hoax. "How could you tell us such a thing?" they ask Silly Chicken (who is identified as "he" but looks like a hen in the pictures). "How could you believe me? he quickly replies. "You think a chicken knows something just because he can talk?" Gender issues in the art aside, this quirky, good-natured fable, with bright, aptly comical pictures, ably illustrates the maxim, It's important not to believe everything you hear. Kelly Halls
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A Sufi teaching tale of a chicken that has learned to speak as people do and spreads an alarming warning, which causes the townspeople to panic without first considering the messenger.