When You Can't Stop Worrying (The Hare Who Held Up the Sky)

Leo can't stop thinking about tomorrow, so Grandpa tells him about a little hare who believed he had to hold up the whole sky, all by himself, or it would come crashing down. He pushed and propped and never rested, until the night he finally let go. A gentle story for the child whose worries won't switch off at bedtime, and a quiet reminder that some things hold themselves up. For children 4 to 8, and whoever sits beside them.About The Tale: The fear that the sky might fall is a very old one. It comes from a Chinese story more than two thousand years old, about a man from the land of Qi who worried so much that the sky would fall that he could no longer eat or sleep. It is told in the Taoist classic the Liezi, written down around the 5th century BC. In the old story, a friend calms him by explaining the sky cannot fall. Our little hare, who tried to hold the sky up all by himself, is our own.