Chicken Little: The Real and Totally True Tale

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Dec 4, 2023

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When something falls from the sky and bops Chicken Little on the head, he looks high and low to figure out what it was. He even asks the sky if it’s falling – after all, you can never be too sure. But when the other chickens worry that the sky really IS falling, the coup quickly turns into CHAOS. How is Chicken Little going to fix this mess?!
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