Well, I never said that every story on the list was a good one. ;-) I only said these were stories I'd expect the average "person on the street" to know fairly well (I remember my kindergarten class acting out "Chicken Little").

I actually came up with the list as a response to this: The Man Who Had No Story (about a man who claimed he knew no stories or songs of any kind).

Modern audiences/readers probably meet that claim without batting an eye, being as accustommed as we are to having our stories spoonfed to us through radio, television and the movies. But even we know stories like "The Three Little Pigs," and "Little Red Riding Hood." For a culture as strongly steeped in oralature as pre-industrial Ireland, where the wandering storyteller was a professison and social class unto itself, that line in the story must have stood out like a great flashing red light...

FWIW, I think "Chicken Little" is a horrid story, personally (The moral to me seems to be: "Don't trust your senses, and don't rock the boat!"), unless, of course, it's used as the basis for a satirical, twisted retelling.