Project Gutenberg 2006-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 1272 Williams, Florence White 1900 1953 The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Illustrated by the author. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Little Red Hen" by Florence White Williams is a children's folk tale retold and illustrated in the early 20th century. This book narrates the story of a diligent hen who, despite the reluctance of her barnyard friends, undertakes the labor of planting, harvesting, and baking bread. The moral centers around the value of hard work and the consequences of laziness, making it an engaging read for young audiences and a useful teaching tool for imparting lessons about responsibility and teamwork. In the tale, the Little Red Hen discovers a wheat seed and decides to plant it. Throughout the process of growing the wheat, the cat, pig, and rat refuse to help her with any tasks, such as planting, cutting, or threshing the wheat. Despite their indifference, the hen perseveres, taking on all the responsibilities herself. When the bread is finally baked, the same creatures who had previously declined to assist eagerly ask to eat it. However, the Little Red Hen proudly claims the fruits of her labor, teaching a valuable lesson about reaping rewards only from one’s efforts. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/18735/18735-h/images/cover_054_1.jpg en Animals -- Juvenile fiction Chickens -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Children's Picture Books Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 44283 44038 2024-10-08T09:33:01.188016 2023-09-08T10:50:56.044032 text/html text/html 39444 2006-07-01T15:52:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1989582 2006-07-01T15:52:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2148720 2024-10-08T09:33:03.752011 application/epub+zip 2147430 2024-10-08T09:33:01.869987 application/epub+zip 74344 2024-10-08T09:33:01.506997 application/epub+zip 2179733 2024-10-08T09:33:05.341035 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2170389 2024-10-08T09:33:03.399033 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 103451 2022-09-09T05:31:06.603176 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 29340 29230 2024-10-08T09:33:00.828999 2023-09-08T10:50:55.748119 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 29251 2006-07-01T15:52:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 10402 2006-07-01T15:52:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19982 2024-10-08T09:33:05.684993 application/rdf+xml 23518 2024-10-08T09:33:01.585027 image/jpeg 3774 2024-10-08T09:33:01.545992 image/jpeg 2029255 2024-10-08T09:33:01.311010 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia