The Little Red Hen
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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.
The Little Red Hen, 1918 title page
The Little Red Hen, illustrated by Florence White Williams
The Ant and the Grasshopper
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The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food fro
The Little Red Hen
…weight of unrecognized labor takes a toll on the Hen and she, in a final mad scene, murders the other farm animals, chokes on the bread, and dies. The Ant and the Grasshopper, an Aesop fable with a similar moral The Gigantic Turnip…
The Grasshopper begs at the Ant's door. Art by Charles H. Bennett (1857).
Coloured print of La Fontaine's fable by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, c. 1750
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Wood engraving of the fable by J. J. Grandville, 1838–1840