1984, Carol Chambers Collins, Our Food, Air and Water: How Safe Are They?, Facts on File (1984), →ISBN, page 27:
The Henny Pennies who forecast doom and disaster thus have been proved hysterics who could use some est or encounter sessions to calm their anxieties.
2001, Seymour B. Sarason, American Psychology & Schools: A Critique, Teachers College Press (2001), →ISBN, page 130:
I know that in some quarters I am regarded as a kind of wet blanket, a Henny Penny predicting doom and gloom.
2006, Rebecca Knuth, Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction, Praegar Publishers (2006), →ISBN, page 209:
On April 11, in a tense news conference during a period when the looting dominated the news, Rumsfeld dismissed the media by calling them “Henny Pennies,” a reference to a children's tale in which the main character runs around, declaring that the sky is falling.
