We Share A Story 2006:

A Literacy Connection in Bellingham!

TRADITIONAL VERSIONS

The Little Red Hen / Paul Galdone
New York: Houghton/Clarion, 1973.

The Little Red Hen: An Old Story / Margot Zemach
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together (in which wovles are tame, trolls are transformed, and peas are triumphant) / Hoberman, Mary Ann
New York: Little, Brown, 2004.

 

 


The Little Red Hen
/ Berta and Elmer Hader
New York: Stanley Rosen, 1990.

LONGER VERSIONS INVOLVING FOX AND STONES


The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: A Traditional Tale
/ Percy Graham
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1992.

 

The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen
/ Lorinda Bryan Cauley
New York: Putnam, 1982.

MODERN SPIN-OFFS

Gator Gumbo: A Spicy-Hot Tale / Candace Fleming
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004.

A hungry alligator, slow with age, hopes to catch some good meat to add to his spicy gumbo.

The Talking Vegetables / Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret Lippert
New York: Henry Holt, 2006.

After Spider refuses to help the villagers plant the vegetables, he is in for a surprise when he goes to pick some for himself.

OTHER BREAD STORIES

Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup Caldo, Caldo, Caldo / Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Houston, TX: Piñata Books, 1996.

A rhythmic text with repetitive phrases relates how the children watch Mama make soup (recipe included) and go with Papa to get tortillas before enjoying the results of her labor.

 
RELATED NON-FICTION

Bread, Bread, Bread / Ann Morris
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1989.

Celebrates the many different kinds of bread and how it may be enjoyed all over the world.

The Tortilla Factory / Gary Paulsen
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

This simple prose poem describes, in broad strokes, how corn is harvested and made into tortillas while rough, warm-toned paintings set the scenes.

How it Happens at the Cereal Company / Megan Rocker
Minneapolis, MN: Clara House Books, 2004.

Illustrates how cereal is made and packaged.