POSSIBLE SPOILER:
I read the story "Chicken Little" to my son last night during bed time. He was listening very carefully. He even repeated the animals that went with Chicken Little to report to the king that the sky was falling.
He was rooting them on their journey. He was expecting a happy ending because all the other books had happy endings. He is at a stage where he assumes the ending is always good no matter what.
As we read the last page, saying that the fox had eaten all of them. My son was EXTREMELY disappointed that it caught me off guard. He said to me, "What happened to the animals? Did the fox really eat them or just pretend?"
Since I saw the disappointment and I knew it was going to bother him, I said a fib. I told him, "The fox and the other animals are playing hide and seek." He believed it and felt better by saying, "Ohhhhhhhh, Ok. What silly animals!"
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