The Little Red Hen: A Tale about Cooperation

Title

en_US The Little Red Hen: A Tale about Cooperation

en_US Famous Fables

en_US FF22

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Retold by Justine A. Ciovacco

Creator

en_US Ciovacco, Justine See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lustig, Loretta

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:58Z

en_US 2013-04

en_US 2006

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 2006

Abstract

en_US I include this book in the collection not because I think The Little Red Hen should be viewed as a fable but because this volume is part of a series that is labeled Famous Fables. This twenty-page children's picture book extends onto its back endpaper with tips for parents, including strategies, discussion questions, and activities that grow out of the story. The Little Red Hen is a great traditional story. Yes, it is about cooperation. It is perhaps even more about work and its consequences. The hen finds some grains of wheat. At each stage, from planting to baking, she asks for help from her three friends: the cat, the dog, and the pig. Not I is the standard answer from each of these lazy friends, and her standard response is Then I will do it myself. When it comes to eating the bread that results from the process, she allows only those to eat who helped along the way -- and concludes with her line now applied to eating the bread: Then I will do it myself. The four characters are clothed in human garb throughout.

Identifier

en_US 9781599390185

en_US 8955 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84160

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Reader's Digest Young Families

en_US Pleasantville, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F368 Litr 2006 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole