title: The Little Red Hen: An Old Fable
author:  Heather Forest 
description: PreSchool-Grade 2&ndash;In this rhyming version of the workhorse story, a black-and-white kitten, corgi pup, and shiny-eyed mouse are the reluctant friends of Little Red Hen, who seems to wink conspiratorially at readers, as if to say, Here we go again! While cat is distracted by a yarn ball, dog wrestles with a blue blanket, and mouse surveys a sort of scrapbook of mice of many lands (complete with tags in German, Korean, Hebrew, and French, among other languages), Hen goes about her business, planting, cutting, grinding, and baking all by herself. But here, unlike most accounts, there's a twist: the lazy animals learn their lesson and are given a chance to redeem themselves: For after all is said and done, working together makes working fun. The rhyme scheme's a bit bumpy at times and will require skilled reading aloud, but Gaber's bold acrylic artwork and varied use of space&ndash;from full-bleed paintings to small, egg-shaped cameo vignettes&ndash;and the infectious, familiar refrain of Not I, and, in this telling, My, my&hellip; make this an appealing storytime and readers'-theater selection.<I>&ndash;Kathy Krasniewicz, Perrot Library, Old Greenwich, CT</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # The Little Red Hen
  
  
  ### Florence White Williams
  
  
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  The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale
  
  
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  THE LITTLE RED HEN
  
  
  An Old English
  
  Folk Tale
  
  
  Retold
  
  and
  
  Illustrated
  
  
  by
  
  FLORENCE WHITE WILLIAMS
  
  
  
  
  
  The
  
  SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
  
  CHICAGO—AKRON, OHIO—NEW YORK
  
  PRINTED IN U. S. A.
  
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  COPYRIGHT, 1918
  
  BY
  
  THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
  
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  The Little Red Hen
  
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  A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking
  about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for
  worms.
  
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  She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they w