The Little Red Hen

by Paul Galdone

Book Overview

This timeless story of having your cake (and eating it, too!) comes to life with Galdone's dynamic, amusing pictures. A classic storybook for all young readers--and a cautionary tale for lazy ones. Little Red Hen is a time-tested tale about how we reap what we sow.

When the Little Red Hen asks a cat, dog, and mouse for help planting some wheat, she gets no takers: 'Not I!' said the cat. 'Not I!' said the dog. 'Not I!' said the mouse. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899193498
• ISBN13: 9780899193496
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.9" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

This is too hard for me to understand!

This is too super tough to comprehend!

Fun book

I love the rhyming pattern in this. The book was in good condition

Bruh, a classic!

My grandma used to read this to me when I was a youngster, so naturally I wanted to read it to my stepdaughter. She loved it. Great lessons about not being a lazy ass.

Great book

My 5 year old loves it!

Helping others would be profitable.

The little Red Hen is one of the cute stories out there for kids that actually have morals to implement within the story itself. It's teaches the moral of helping and what happens if you just sit down and do nothing but when the job is done, you would get nothing either if you don't help. Little Red Hen found some wheat on the ground and did all the work of growing it, cutting it, grinding it and even to the baker to bake it into bread all by herself because the other animals refuse to even help her to do all of the process above. but in the end when it's all ready to be eaten, the rest jumped up to offer to help her to eat it, but of course, Little Red Hen won't have it their way, for she has done all the work by herself with none of their help so she could do without them this time too

As always with Galdone, a wonderful, faithful retelling

You can never go far wrong with fairy tales and Paul Galdone! We have almost all his books, and they are the versions I almost always have read my sons. As in this version, he tells the story clearly, with interesting and detailed but not cluttered pictures. There is something about this particular story my sons have always loved. Perhaps it's because it's a pretty clear-cut ending---the ones who would not help don't get to share the treat, instead of the ending of many more modern tales where all learn their lesson and get included at the end! Kids often like things to be "fair but firm"! They also like the details of the cooking included here. Have a look at all of Galdone's books if you are interested in building up a fairy tale collection.

A Classic "Teaching" Tale Well Illustrated

Paul Galdone is on my entering kindergartener's Summer Reading List and I can certainly understand why. He has a marvelous way of drawing expressions and displaying, with detail, a story in a manner that makes it real and concrete for little children. Certainly, my children (3 and 5; boy and girl respectively) like this version of the Little Red Hen. And I found it really useful as a learning tool too. While other versions just have the repetitive print "Not I" standing on it's own, the Galdone version has a picture of each animal next to the words. These pictures allow even a toddler to participate in `reading' the story aloud. A Great Addition to the home library. Some lesson activities for the "Little Red Hen' suggested by various websites include: --Talking with older children about whether the Hen's treatment of her housemates was justified. Could Hen have handled the situation in another way? --Tying the book into a lesson about plant growth, and/or cake making. --Talking about Teamwork and then how families work as a team. -- Reading different versions and discussing the merits of one versus the other. -- For younger children, having them recite and fill in the blanks as you read.

Work Ethic

The Little Red Hen is a wonderful introduction to work ethic and the value of helping and doing things from scratch. It has nice repetitive elements which younger kids love and the step by step story telling much like "The House that Jack Built."

A Great Book

Teaches a valuable lesson about teamwork and helping out. Great illustrations. Easy to read for beginning readers. Paul Gladone has another winner!