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Folktale and Fairy Tale Resources in the CRC: Little Red Hen
This guide will connect you with the folktales, fairy tales, variants, and fractured versions of traditional tales from around the world.
A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it
The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it
The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it
The little red hen can find no friends to help her plant and care for the grain of wheat she finds, but plenty of friends willing to eat the bread she bakes from it
A retelling of the traditional tale of the little red hen whose lazy friends are unwilling to help her plant, harvest, or grind the wheat into flour, but are willing to help her eat the bread she makes from it. In this version, story continues with her later finding a second grain and everyone willing to help her. Includes a recipe for whole wheat bread
In this version of the familiar tale, when the barnyard animals who refused to help her plant and tend a seed ask to play under the "great green whispery tree" that Little Red Hen grew, she says no, but her chick thinks that answer is mean
The Little Red Hen
This illustration from:
The Little Red Hen. J.P. Miller, illustrator, 1954.
In this Texas-style adaptation of a traditional folktale, a tarantula, mockingbird, and horned toad refuse to help an armadillo prepare a batch of chili but nevertheless expect to eat it when it's ready