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by: P. K. Page
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780889843097
ISBN: 0889843090
Label: Porcupine's Quill
Manufacturer: Porcupine's Quill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: November 01, 2008
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: November 01, 2008
Studio: Porcupine's Quill
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Product Description:
A bedraggled hen is rescued from certain starvation by an old woman. The old woman leads a meagre existence, but willing and generously shares food and water with the hen. The hen, it turns out, is capable of laying crystal eggs which reveal within their shells visions of future disasters. The woman attempts to warn her neighbours of an impending flood, but is ridiculed and mocked by the whole village. The woman faces further threats from a young hoodlum who imagines that the hen might provide him with riches garnered by selling its crystal eggs.
Unwilling to lose the hen -- her only friend -- but also rather unwilling to give up the egg, the old woman again sees another vision in the egg which helps her determine that the best course is to give up the egg.
In spite of her now homeless state, the old woman never loses faith. She believes firmly in the ability of the hen to bring her luck. And indeed the folktale ends with the fulfilment of the old woman's dreams.
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