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Chicken Little (disambiguation)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ3667740 ↗
Source-derived summary

Henny Penny is a fable, also known as Chicken Little or Chicken Licken.

Chicken Little may also refer to:

Chicken Little (1943 film), a Disney short film based on the folk tale

Chicken Little (2005 film), a Disney animated film loosely based on the folk tale

Chicken Little (video game), a video game based on the 2005 Disney animated film

"Chicken Little", a song by Herbie Mann

In the novel The Space Merchants, "Chicken Little" was the name of a genetically engineered food source, from which slices of meat were carved for sale.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chicken Little (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.