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ROSIE'S WALK, by Pat Hutchins (Macmillan; $3.95). Rosie the hen is out for a walk and doesn't realize the fox is stalking her. But the gods look after the innocent, and Rosie unwittingly leads the sly villain into one pratfall after another. With 14 bold pictures and only 32 words, Pat Hutchins has produced a broadly humorous book for the very young...
...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). There's something to cackle about when a small boy's pet hen lays an egg that hatches out a dinosaur. That is the case in "The Enormous Egg," a TV adaptation of Oliver Butterworth's story...
...least to keep it that way. We had expected that the Peace Corps Administration would respect our opinions, but what we got when we suggested that we had been poorly assigned and that we knew a place where our talents could be better used, was an anxious mother-hen visit from the Assistant Peace Corps Director in Chile whose reaction to our situation was, "Maybe you aren't trying hard enough...
...croons, too, in a big, booming baritone that, on his five bestselling albums, sounds vaguely like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice") and does songs (She Was a T-Bone Talking Woman but She Had a Hot-Dog Heart}. In Las Vegas, he sings "You load 16 tons and what do you get? A hernia." That's good for $40,000 a week...
...group. "We make it clear that the baby was not 'got' at the hospital, but grew inside the mother until the doctor helped it get out," says Glen Cove's Mrs. Rose Daniels, sex-education consultant to the classroom instructors. Mrs. Daniels' kindergartens also incubate hen's eggs-the use of such animals as hamsters and gerbils can be unfortunate, since they sometimes eat their young. To brief her five-year-olds on the principal anatomical discrepancy between boys and girls, Mrs. Daniels conducts a bisexual expedition into the school men's room...