The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat (Never Grow Old Series, No. 352)

Piper, Watty

Published by The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., 1927

About this Item

Tears and chips to jacket edges, jacket previously mended with tape. Board edges lightly rubbed. 1927 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. The Little Red Hen is an American fable first collected by Mary Mapes Dodge in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1874. The story is meant to teach children the importance of hard work and personal initiative. A hen living on a farm finds some wheat and decides to make bread with it. She asks the other farmyard animals to help her plant it, but they refuse. The hen then harvests and mills the wheat into flour before baking it into bread; at each stage she again asks the animals for help, but they still refuse. Finally, with her task complete, the hen asks who will help her eat the bread. This time the animals eagerly accept, but the hen refuses, stating that no one helped her with her work and decides to eat the bread herself. In some books, the Little Red Hen (though she did eat the bread all by herself) decides to give her friends another chance. (That is, in the end.) The Little Red Hen says that next time she will be happy to make enough bread for herself, her chicks, and all her farmyard animal friends if they help her. (Her friends ask, "If we help you'".) The little red hen says, "Yes. If you help me do the work". The friends happily promise to help her next time. From then on, her farmyard animal friends become eager helpers. In some variations, the hen has chicks who help her out with the entire process, and the hen and her brood then proceed to eat the bread as a family. Seller Inventory # 2340978

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Little Red Hen and the Grain of Wheat (...

Publisher: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc.

Publication Date: 1927

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Fair