Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Little Red Hen

This book is a tad confusing. I know it may sound dumb considering that it is a children's book. I've read more than one version of this story and the ending is always different. In this particular edition, the Little Red Hen ends up sharing her loaf of bread at the end. I've read another version in which the Little Red Hen ends up eating the bread all by herself.

This book really teaches kids that being helpful will always pay off in the end. At the beginning of the book the Little Red Hen finds the seeds and asks if anyone would help her plant it. As the times go by they still refuse to help her pick the grain and to ground it as well, but when it comes time for them to eat the bread they all wish to help her at that time.

The pictures are self explanatory considering that they just show the Little Red Hen doing the activities that the Hen is going through.

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