Henny Penny

What is there not to love about Henny Penny? This is a classic story of Henny Penny and her animal friends. This book has beautiful and bright pictures, is is an easy and fun read and would be best for grades k-2. The best thing about this book is that it takes you for a journey and then has a surprise ending that even caught me off guard. The students will find this book easy to read and will enjoy it over and over again. The title of the book Henny Penny just makes you want to dive right inside and once you are in, you will be glad you opened the cover. This is a must read classic!

I still remember this book being read to me at school as a small child, mostly because of the rhyming animal names. I had to reread it to remember that it is a fable about being gullible, and how we should be leaders and not followers! It is very short, very simple, and there's not much to it. Great illustrations.

Henny Penny by Galdone was a book I remember as a child. Short and with a shocker ending, if any of you want to really have a laugh at a macabre dark twist kids book, then this is your book, there is another version where everything's storybook fine, if you like that type of thing too.

Henny Penny by Paul Galdone is a retelling of the well-known, cumulative nursery tale. Henny Penny is hit on the head with an acorn and mistakenly believes that the sky is falling. She enlists her friends Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, and Turkey Lurkey to help her to tell the king. Along the way, they meet Foxy Loxy who tricks them and keeps them from getting to the king.
The character names in this tale are memorable. As is the message about panicking and not thinking through the consequences of your actions, such as blinding believing information you are told without checking into it yourself. A timeless lesson.

Henny Penny by Galdone was a book I remember as a child. Short and with a shocker ending, if any of you want to really have a laugh at a macabre dark twist kids book, then this is your book, there is another version where everything's storybook fine, if you like that type of thing too.

I was amused by the story line and the silly names that were assigned to the characters in the story. The story includes rhythmic and repetitive language during the course of the story. The author introduces plenty of animals and has a story line to keep you intrigued and interested during the entire story. The story has a little bit of a haunted twist at the end when the foxes eat the turkey, the duck, and Henny. I think the ending was a little weird and not sure if children would enjoy hearing that all the animals are consumed by the foxes. I enjoyed the funny side of the book, where Henny can not figure out that a leaf hit her in the head and insist on telling all the angles that the sky is falling. A funny short story with a twist show more at the end. show less

Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible friends march off to tell the king, only to meet their end at the hands of a wily fox. Tongue twisting rhymes and a surprise ending.