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School Library Journal - 04/01/2015 PreS-Gr 2—The chickens think the sky is falling, so they begin to do all sorts of dances. The other farm animals know that it's just an acorn falling out of a tree, but they join in the dancing, too. When the hungry fox that caused all the commotion (he hit the acorn with a slingshot) sees the others dancing, he accepts the chickens' dance challenge. Teague's squaking chickens are priceless, as is their line dancing, one claw raised and beaks wide open. Cats, rabbits, and squirrels look on in disbelief as the birds contine to do the moonwalk, mambo, and twist. This distraction saves their lives and proves to the other animals that chickens are smart after all. VERDICT A laugh-out-loud version of the classic tale.—Tanya Boudreau, Cold Lake Public Library, AB, Canada - Copyright 2015 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Booklist - 06/01/2015 Teague’s retelling of “Chicken Little” does, indeed, star a panicked chicken, but it adds a “trickster tricked” subplot and lots of dancing—break dancing, the mambo, the twist, and even a kick line. It all starts with Fox firing an acorn from a slingshot, scoring a direct shot on Chicken Little’s head. Chicken Little, eyes crossed and feathers ruffled, starts squawking that the sky is falling. Teague’s twist is that panic in the barnyard takes the form of dancing, which is so irresistibly fun that all the animals join in, forming a boisterous conga line. Even Fox, who has salivated in the background with knife and fork, cookbook, and chicken-centric menu, starts dancing. Teague’s paintings make the action luminous, and his outsize animal drawings make it seem as if the reader is watching a puppet show up close. Teague’s The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf ?(2013) is a perfect complement to this wonderfully zany take on an old tale. - Copyright 2015 Booklist.

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