The Silly Chicken -- El Pollo Bobo: English-Spanish Edition -- Idries Shah

from allieburks

The illustrations for this book are done in acrylic paint. This book is about a chicken who travels into a town and tells the people that the earth is going to swallow everybody up. The people start freaking out and running around the whole world trying to run away from the earth swallowing them ...

from KelseyPrentice

This book is about a chicken who only said "tuck" over and over and the people in the town believed that had to mean something. One day a man taught the chicken how to talk in English and it said that "the earth is going to swallow us up." Everyone believed him and ran all over the earth and into...

from rwheeler08

Genre: Folk Tale Critique of Genre: This is an excellent example of a folk tale because the plot, setting, and character are all established within a few lines of the book. For example, the story starts with the words, "Once upon a time in a country far away, there was a town, and in the town the...

from rwheeler08

Genre: Folk Tale Critique of Genre: This is an excellent example of a folk tale because the plot, setting, and character are all established within a few lines of the book. For example, the story starts with the words, "Once upon a time in a country far away, there was a town, and in the town the...