It's Perfectly True: And Other Stories

By Hans Christian Andersen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152393439
• ISBN13: 9780152393434
• Release Date: March 1938
• Publisher: Harcourt
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Age Range: 6 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 1 and higher

Customer Reviews

A teaching story about gossip

A traditional Hans Christian Andersen story translated by Mus White, "For Sure! For Sure!" is the story of what happens when a simple comment is overheard and passed along by gossip. After a feather falls out of a chicken she notes that she looks "gorgeous". Another chicken overhears it and with a slight embellishment passes it along. The owls overhear it and pass it along to the pigeons who pass it along to the bats, etc. At each stage it changes so that when it comes full circle back to the original chicken she doesn't even know it was about her and she in turn also passes it along to the newspaper. A humorous story that children will love it also provides the opportunity to discuss the problems of gossip. "For Sure! For Sure!" is recommended for the young reader or as a read aloud book for parents.

An object lesson about gossip and how it spreads

My son found this book in the school library two years ago and we loved it. It was tattered and torn....a barnyard story that spreads around town ending up back where it began - in the hen's house,with a surprise ending. It depicts the "human quality" of perception and how we all have a different version of the same experience. "I almost saw it with my own eyes!" It is a humorous tale that shouldn't be missed. I had forgotten the title and am delighted to have found it here!