By the time rumor has changed and spread the story one lost feather becomes five lovesick hens who have plucked out all their feathers. It's absolutely true! say the hens to the owls. And it is repeated throughout the barnyard and all over the village. This charming fairy tale exposes the ridiculous way rumors develop, following the account of a hen-house scandal as it grows more and more sens…
Especially if the tattler happens to be an armadillo with ears as tall a jack rabbit's and as wide as a steer's horns -- an armadillo who can hear anything and everything with his humongous ears.Armadillo Tattletale loves nothing better than eavesdropping on other animals and telling tales about what he hears. That is, until ... Armadillo's friends give him the how-come and the why-not of tattl…