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The Little Red Hen/Help Yourself, Little Red Hen
Juxtaposes the traditional tale of the little red hen whose friends would not help her bake bread with the friends'side of the story
48 pages, Library Binding
First published August 1, 1995
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October 11, 2022
The original story makes it seem like the cat, duck, and pig weren't very nice for not wanting to contribute to helping with the bread until it came time to eat it, and the original kind of puts the theme of not taking advantage of others when it is convenient for you. I give the book credit for trying to give the cat, duck, and pig a sort of do over to make it seem like they were actually trying to teach the hen a lesson rather than it being the other way around.
February 25, 2019
I like that it gives a different point of view, but I also kind of feel like it spoils the original story.
March 28, 2023
I love Granowsky's Another Point of View stories because he handles the important theme so well, giving equal weight to each (of two) different perspectives.
This is one of my very favorite wonder tales in almost every version I've read. I even have a Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (if you know any other titles, please add) for it. So I was curious what this author could do to defend the lazy friends in favor of the hard-working hen.
Well, unfortunately it turns out that the friends aren't lazy, and the hen isn't hard-working. Granowsky changed the tale completely!
But! Fortunately it teaches a closely related theme that is also important! Appearances can be deceiving, and so get all the facts first, before judging!!
I hope you can find these books either at your library or archived on openlibrary.org and share them with your students and families. At least, please discuss the theme as you encounter it in other stories. For example Star Trek:
James T. Kirk, “Balance of Terror”; “The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity, and the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."
Or from Gandhi, or Ford, or Angelou, etc. etc. You'd think we wouldn't need these reminders anymore but we do.
This is one of my very favorite wonder tales in almost every version I've read. I even have a Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... (if you know any other titles, please add) for it. So I was curious what this author could do to defend the lazy friends in favor of the hard-working hen.
Well, unfortunately it turns out that the friends aren't lazy, and the hen isn't hard-working. Granowsky changed the tale completely!
But! Fortunately it teaches a closely related theme that is also important! Appearances can be deceiving, and so get all the facts first, before judging!!
I hope you can find these books either at your library or archived on openlibrary.org and share them with your students and families. At least, please discuss the theme as you encounter it in other stories. For example Star Trek:
James T. Kirk, “Balance of Terror”; “The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity, and the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty."
Or from Gandhi, or Ford, or Angelou, etc. etc. You'd think we wouldn't need these reminders anymore but we do.
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