The Little Red Hen 🐔 Story Moral

In the story, the little red hen finds a grain of wheat and asks the other barnyard animals "Who will help me plant the wheat?” The response “Not I” said the cat, “Not I” said the dog, “Not I” said the pig. So the Little Red Hen said “Then I will plant the seed myself” and she did. At each later stage (harvest, threshing, milling and baking the flour to make bread) the hen asks the 3 animals for help in the process again, and at each stage the animals reply with the same response “Not I” said the cat, “Not I” said the dog, “Not I” said the pig. At the final stage, when the hen has finally baked the bread, she asks “Now, who will help me eat the bread?” If you’ve heard the story before you know the end. But, I’m almost positive that they aren’t teaching this story in school anymore. The response? “No, you did not help me plant, nor help me harvest, nor help me mill, nor help me bake the bread” so the Little Red Hen ate the bread and gave it to her chicks. Such a simple lesson on being a responsible individual and helping others. Modern society no longer embraces this kind of thinking it seems. “It doesn’t matter that you did not contribute to any of the work or preparation in making something successful…you still get to eat from the fruit of people’s labor.” This kind of thinking is wrong. It promotes laziness and slothfulness and the ultimate feeling of entitlement that we see in our world today. So you see, this is why this story should be resurrected and taught to our children at very early ages…like it once was…like it was in the days when people were more responsible and understood “cause and effect” relationships. Yes, let’s revive this “Literary Classic” before it is too late! “The story of the Little Red Hen has been retold many times. First published in 1874, this folk tale teaches children the value of hard work and self-reliance. In the story, a hen finds a seed of wheat, which she decides to plant in order to make bread. Though she seeks the help of other farm animals, they refuse, and the hen must do all the work herself. When the bread is finally made, the other animals wish to partake—but, because they did not help the hen along the way, they are refused the fruits of her labor. The story has been featured as part of the popular “Little Golden Books” series and as a Walt Disney animated film, The Wise Little Hen (1938).” 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. Wikipedia Originally published: 1918 ** Scanned images from this book found at Golden Gems View/Read more little Golden FlipBooks here

Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: "Those unwilling to work will not get to eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
 

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The Wonkey Donkey Collection

What's a Wonkey Donkey?  It's a “spunky, hanky-panky cranky stinky dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey”. In a recent video made by her daughter, Scottish granny Janice Clark reads the story to her four-month-old grandson Archer, and laughs progressively harder as the donkey becomes increasingly bizarre. “Oh dear, how can anybody read this seriously,” says Clark. “This is going to kill me.” - The Guardian NEW RELEASE! Wonky Donkey Series Amazon Set (5 Books) Paperback – Picture Book, January 1, 2022 by Katz Cowley (Illustrator) - This Wonky Donkey Series Set includes: The Wonky Donkey, The Dinky Donkey, The Grinny Granny Donkey, Willbee the Bumblebee, and Wonky Donkey's Big Surprise. Preview the book on AnyFlip

 

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Little Golden Book History

In the 1930s Western Printing and Lithograph Company of Racine, Wis., formed the Artists and Writers Guild Inc., a group charged with the development of new children’s books. In 1934 Western purchased a printing plant in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and started working closely with Dell Publishing Company and Simon and Schuster Inc. Credit for developing the Little Golden Book concept goes to Georges Duplaix, head of the Artists and Writers Guild Inc., in the early 1940s, Lucile Ogle, also a Guild member, and Albert Leventhal and Leon Shimkin of Simon and Schuster. Duplaix and Ogle wanted to create a book that was colorful, affordable, and could be used by children without parents being concerned what they were doing to it. At the time, the average price for a children’s book was two to three dollars, a major investment in 1940s dollars. The Sept. 19, 1942, edition of “Publisher’s Weekly” contained the first advertisement for Little Golden Books. Simon & Schuster published them; Western Printing and Lithography Company printed them. The initial 12, forty- two page titles, priced at 25 cents each, sold over one and one-half million books in the first five months of publication. All books had completed a third printing. By the end of World War II, 39 million Little Golden Books were sold. In 1944 Little Golden Books introduced its Disney series. Big and Giant Golden Books followed that same year. In 1949 the Goldencraft editions, having cloth rather than side-stapled cardboard covers for library and school use, were published. Between 1955 and 1961, Little Golden Books offered an activity series, books featuring learning wheels, stamps, paper dolls, paper models, paint and color books, and a calendar. In 1958 Giant Little Golden Books were added to the line.   Exerpts adapted from: The Morning Call » THE RULES OF SAVING LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS RINKER ON COLLECTIBLES Originally Published: November 26, 1989 at 5:00 a.m. Read the rest of the story here. --- > The Lessons of Little Golden Books

 

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