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The Little Red Hen
Beloved illustrator J. P. Miller’s graphic, colorful farm animals seem to jump right off the page—but they aren’t jumping to help the Little Red Hen plant her wheat! Young children will learn a valuable lesson about teamwork from this funny, favorite folktale.
Hardcover, 24 pages
Published
February 1st 2001
by Golden Books
(first published 1954)
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It is always a good idea to demonstrate to our children the spirit of giving and helping. This book shows the adverse effects from friends who aren't willing to help when asked. Helping others builds character and initially may be met with unseen rewards, in the book's case - some tasty bread. Had the friends known the outcome, they more than likely would have responded differently. Once a child is thanked or hugged when they help others they get to experience something possibly greater than a t...more
A classic capitalist fable, only slightly altered from the original. Too bad my daughter doesn't seem to understand why the hen is "being mean" and "not sharing." However, this has remained one of her most requested stories for a year, and she loves to say all of the "Not I" parts, and she is slowly starting to get the point.
The Little Red Hen tells the tale of a hen who lives with a pig, duck and a cat. The hen does most of the work around the house as the other animals are very lazy.
During the story, the hen decides to make a loaf of bread. At each stage of the bread-making process, she requests help from the other animals. Each animal refuses to help throughout the whole process as they are too busy doing what they enjoy doing, leaving then hen to do all of the work. Once the loaf is ready, the animals all want t...more
During the story, the hen decides to make a loaf of bread. At each stage of the bread-making process, she requests help from the other animals. Each animal refuses to help throughout the whole process as they are too busy doing what they enjoy doing, leaving then hen to do all of the work. Once the loaf is ready, the animals all want t...more
This book has been a classic for years because it addresses various subjects and lessons. This story is about a hardworking hen, who wants to make some bread. However because it requires so much work, the hen needs help, so she decides to ask her friends for help. However the don't want to help her with anything. At the end when the delicious bread is finally completed, the friends rush to help eat, but because they didn't help the hen, they don't deserve to eat it. This is a great book to not o...more
This story is a great book to share with children in the classroom. It can be used for so many different domains of learning for children. The lesson in friendship and hard work are covered in a way children can understand the direct effect of the lesson in the story. The children can also gain knowledge in vocabulary related to food and the way it can be made.
Children in the classroom can gain from this book by using a cooking lesson to work on skills related to math and science to further ext...more
Children in the classroom can gain from this book by using a cooking lesson to work on skills related to math and science to further ext...more
I love this book. It is appropriate for Pre-k and first grades children. Shows how important is to share and to work as a team. When you teach your children to cooperate with others, I am sure life is going to be much easier for them, because if you help people, when you need some help, someone is going to be ready to help you out. New vocabulary is learned. Also the story show that when you work hard, at the end always you are going to be rewarded.
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This folk-tale explores the process of growing wheat as well as the value of hard work. The little red hen plants, reaps, takes the wheat to the mill and makes it into dough all on her own and without and help from her friends. In the end, the hen offers her freshly baked loaf of bread which she made from the wheat she sowed but when her friends say they will help her eat it, she replies "No, I will eat it myself." The moral I get from the story is that you reap what you sow, and that it takes t...more
Feb 05, 2013
Salima Hart
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The Little Red Hen is a classic fable that teaches children the value of working hard. This story is about a little red hen that wanted to bake some bread. The process of baking bread requires a lot of work, so she asks for help from some of her friends. None of her friends wanted to help her do anything, so she was forced to do everything herself. In the end, when the bread was finished, everyone wanted to eat some, but the little red hen wouldn't let them since they refused to help put in the...more
This book is suitable for early years and Key Stage 1 children. The story follows Little Red Hen and her quest to make bread without the help of her lazy friends, the rat, the cat and the pig. I really enjoyed reading this book to my class. Children were engaged throughout the story, and loved acting out the different animals in the story. The story is good for topics such as plants and growing. The children especially liked the ending of the story, where the Hen, after all her hard work eats th...more
I thought that book taught me a very valuable lesson that I still teach to someone that is younger than me. Also that anyone who reads this will learn a valuable lesson as they go through life or they might teach to someone younger than they are.
Learning Experience
The learning experience is that you should help someone that needs it and not ask for something in return for it. Also that helping someone is good thing you might get something as a reward. Also that helping someone you will be frien...more
Learning Experience
The learning experience is that you should help someone that needs it and not ask for something in return for it. Also that helping someone is good thing you might get something as a reward. Also that helping someone you will be frien...more
This book worked very well for me in a reception class, with the children really being able to understand that the way the other characters refused to help the little red hen was wrong. A fantastic story for early years debating as some children will believe the little red hen should have shared with the others, while other children will vehemently argue the point that she should not have to as no one helped her to make it in the first place. Beautiful illustrations and a fun read for adults and...more
The story is about a hen that has several “so-called” friends who will not help her with her farming. These friends are not interested in helping at all until the hen has a nice loaf of bread freshly out of the oven, and then they all want to help her eat it. This folktale deals with the idea of helping our friends and reaping the benefits of that (sowing and reaping). The hen ended up doing all of the work and was able to enjoy the fresh bread all by herself. This story has a good morale and wo...more
This classic story of a hen who asks for help, but does not receieve it, is a great story to read to children at a young age because it gives a good lesson, and it has repeating phrases that engage them in the story. The hen only gets a positive response when all the animals want to eat the bread after she is finished with all of the labor she puts into planting, harvesting, and baking the wheat. Hopefully students will get the message of helping others out. This is a story that sticks with you...more
The Little Red Hen is a classic children's book that every teacher must have in his/her classroom! I very much enjoy this book because it addresses multiple topics--all in one colorful short story! First, this book definitely addresses a sequence of events, allowing students to grasp the concept of events happening one after another. It also teaches us about giving and receiving as well as the importance of teamwork. It would be a great read aloud for the beginning of the year to teach about fri...more
‘The Little red hen’ tells the story of a red hen who asks her friends a cock and a mouse to help her in various flour making tasks. When it comes to eating the food made by the flour the hen refuses to share with her friends; as they refused to help her. The next time she finds some wheat they are eager to help her.
This story teaches the importance of helping and sharing with your friends. This would be a great story to introduce the terms of friendship to children in the EYFS or KS1.
This story teaches the importance of helping and sharing with your friends. This would be a great story to introduce the terms of friendship to children in the EYFS or KS1.
“The Little Red Hen” is a traditional story that all children enjoy. The little red hen decides to bake some bread and offers other farm animals to help her. They all sniff at the opportunity and reject her offer. But once she has baked the bread, all of the animals are interested and want her to share with them. This book teaches children the important lesson of not being lazy and putting in hard work in order to achieve results.
This book teaches students to work together in order to accomplish a task. The red hen baked bread, but when she asked for help, none of the animals helped her. When she was done, all of the animals wanted to eat it, but she didn't let them because they didn't help her during the process of making the bread. After reading this book, the class can work together to follow a recipe such as baking pie or making ice cream.
Sep 06, 2011
Jenna Seivert
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The classic talk of The Little Red Hen has always been a favorite of mine. After reading it again found I enjoy it just as much as I did when I was a child. The story is about a Hen who asks her friends to help her make a loaf of bread. None of her friends want to help but they do however want to help eat the bread after it is made. The story has a good moral, saying that helping others pays off in the end.
This was my favorite book as a child!
The little red hen grew wheat, threshed it, ground it, and baked it into bread. At each step she asked the other animals if they would like to help and their reply was always "Not I".
At the end when she made the bread and asked "Who would like to eat this bread?" all the animals said "I! I do!" but because they didn't help at all she only shared with her chicks.
The little red hen grew wheat, threshed it, ground it, and baked it into bread. At each step she asked the other animals if they would like to help and their reply was always "Not I".
At the end when she made the bread and asked "Who would like to eat this bread?" all the animals said "I! I do!" but because they didn't help at all she only shared with her chicks.
My 2-year old son has mixed feelings about this book. The pictures are somewhat abstract, and he doesn't recognize very many things in them yet. He does not recognize the farm animals or have any concept of growing wheat or bread baking yet. Unfortunately it is too far outside his experience to be understood at this age. The amount of text on each page can tax his attention span as well.
I used this book in my children's ESL class for 3-6 year olds. For our last class before summer break, I wanted to bake chocolate chip cookies with the class. One little boy raised his hand and said that we should all bring something. He really understood the story: who doesn't contribute, doesn't get to enjoy the product. So I gave each child a slip of paper with a picture of what they were to bring with the German and English word for that item. They were so proud to contribute to the product....more
I think that this book is amazing at showing the students the importance of helping others. I have seen this book read and performed by members of the center for puppetry arts and it was pretty amazing. I think that this story could be used in a classroom for the dramatic play area. This story is also great for sequencing. Students can create puppets and reenact the stories.
A classic children's book that I have just read for the first time. The little red hen does all of the housework around the house while the cat, dog, and mouse do nothing. She bakes bread from scratch and when it is all finished the three other animals want a taste and she refuses because she did all of the work. Good book for teaching students about the value of hard work.
I know..I know...a 28yr old adding a KID'S book?!?! Hey...I read this book and I'm gonna be straight up...this is one of my ALL time favorite kid's book! I absolutely love the attitude of this hen! She busted her tail to make the bread with NO help of those around her..and then when it's time to eat...does she share it?! HELL NO!! Guess they should have helped! HAHHAHAHA!
Sep 10, 2012
Jessica
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The Little Red Hen is an easy and fun read. This fable teachers the reader a lesson about greed. All who read this tale will be sure to understand the importance of hard work. This book includes fun illustrations and fun words to make the story come together as one. I would recommend this book to all who wish to enjoy themselves as well as learning a thing or two.
Apr 05, 2011
Angela Moorer
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"Not I...." This is the famous line of repetition in the old favorite! Nobody wanted to help the hen do all of her hardwork but they wanted to reap the benefits. This is the perfect selection to help students understand the necessity of teamwork. I would read this book in the early grades to encourage that sense of building community and helping others.
My son read a readers' theater version as his homework tonight and it is a great story for young readers to practice reading with expression. And of course, the ending always causes some giggles but the message is so true...you can't expect to get anything good if you don't put in the work to make the good thing happen.
This is a wonderful book for smaller children. The pages are very cute and colorful. I own this book and my 2yr old loves me to read it over and over. The concept of this book is great as well, it teaches kids if your not willing to help out with the hard stuff then why should you reap the rewards in the end. Great story.
This was part of the winter book collection at Chik-fi-la. The story is one of a hen her asks for help from her four. They all say no and continue playing as she works. In the end, she does not share bread with that did not help. The pictures are done in a fifties folk art way with wide color palette and clothing for all.
The little red hen keeps asking form help when she was going through all the steps of making bread. No one would help her until it was time to eat the bread. This book is wonderful to read to teach a class about the importance in not only helping when you can benefit from it but helping every time someone asks for your help.
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Diane Muldrow grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She later attended Ohio University, where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Magazine Journalism and a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts: Dance. After her graduation, Diane moved to New York. She spent several years performing as an actress and dancer in New York’s downtown avant-garde performance scene. She also danced in a performance at Lincoln Cen...more
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