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To: Lane3 who wrote (7913)	8/12/1999 9:14:00 AM
From: Lane3	of 9818

From today's Washington Post, some thoughts on communicating with the kids on Y2K. ----------- Tome Machine Book Publishers Prepared for Y2K By Linton Weeks Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 12, 1999 Publishers this fall are releasing a batch of books about the end of the millennium. But two of the best Y2K-for-kids stories appeared years ago. They are both about chickens. "Henny Penny" (a k a Chicken Little) is the tale of a hen who gets hit on the head by a falling acorn and believes the sky is falling. On her way to tell the king, she is joined by Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky and others who are all too willing to believe that the end is near. The Y2K moral: An event is seldom as disastrous as you might imagine. In "The Little Red Hen," a bird sows wheat, harvests it, makes it into flour and bakes a cake. She then refuses to share her food with a dog, a cat and a mouse who were too lazy to help her prepare. The Y2K moral: Who knows how bad the coming crisis could be, but it doesn't hurt to make some preparations. To help kids understand the millennial moment, publishers are not harking back to the old books. They are making new ones... For complete story: washingtonpost.com

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