Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

Author:Amy Timberlake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Humbled by the Sky-Is-Falling Fiasco, Chicken Little left on a journey. She was determined to make up for what she had done. “I will not return until I find Something That Makes a Difference,” Chicken Little said.

It was quite a journey! Chicken Little traveled through bands of starlings that leapt from the leaf litter and frogs that chorused to lead her astray. She snuck past lines of battling army ants and hid in damp ditches. Finally, she met a wise green parakeet. The parakeet gave her a magic kernel of corn. “Eat the kernel in a Time of Need,” the parakeet told her.

Traversing the mountain glacier, Chicken Little lost a claw to frostbite. Then a crust of snow gave way with nothing but air underneath it. It was a crevasse, a crack in the glacier, half hidden by blown-over snow. Into the crevasse, Chicken Little fell! She turned in the air, falling, falling. In desperation she flapped the wings that she’d been told were worthless.

The wings worked!

Or well enough. Chicken Little skidded onto the other side of the crevasse and dug her remaining claws into the crusty snow.

The effort about did her in. Chicken Little lay on the ice panting, trying to remember which pocket held her magic corn kernel. Where was it? She could not seem to find it! And here, Chicken Little faced several facts: Bantam hens were not made for mountaineering. Also, a chicken on ice is soon a dead chicken. If it were not for a family of mountain pikas dragging her into their warm straw-filled den, Chicken Little would be no more. The pikas saved Chicken Little’s life. In return, Chicken Little left the pikas three eggs.

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