The bold splashes of countless colors, contrasted against sharp fields of white, brilliantly jump out from the square pages. Chicken Little's initial encounter with his follower birds is amusingly instigated by a frenetic Chicken Little bumping into each one with his open umbrella, causing a repeated cacophony of "Bonk! Onk!" The punchy text is perfectly complemented by high-impact illustrations in collage-like planes of electric hues. This retelling is chock-full of droll, playful dialogue and lively pacing the bird friends in particular are given more characterization than in some versions. In the end, Chicken Little and his avian friends go trotting right into the open jaws of Foxy Loxy, but they are mercifully saved when Foxy Loxy sneezes, sending the feathered friends flying out of his mouth in a feather-filled two-page foldout. He was very excitable and prone to foolishness." That's for sure: after getting clobbered in the head by an acorn, Chicken Little goes about spreading hysteria through the barnyard masses, telling his coop-mates that the sky is falling and urging them to follow him with nary a plan for where he is leading them. "Chicken Little," the story explains at its beginning, "was not the brightest chicken in the coop. The classic story of Chicken Little is treated with an abundant dose of wit and an explosion of colorful chaos in this collaboration between father Ed and daughter Rebecca Emberley.
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