The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · November 11, 2002
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- Who it’s for
- A familiar folktale gets a pizza-making twist, with help arriving in an unexpected way.
- Themes
- Making pizza, Friends helping one another
- Genres
- Folktale Retellings, Farm Animal Stories, Cooking & Food
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The story of the industrious Little Red Hen is not a new one, but when this particular hen spies a can of tomato sauce in her cupboard and decides to make a pizza, the familiar tale takes on a fresh new twist. Kids will love following along as the hen, with no help from her friends the duck, the dog, and the cat, goes through the steps of making a pizza-shopping for supplies, making the dough, and adding the toppings.
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But despite their initial resistance, the hen's friends come through in the end and help out in a refreshing and surprising way.
A Pizza Twist
A familiar folktale gets a pizza-making twist, with help arriving in an unexpected way.
Come here for
- A hen tale reframed around tomato sauce and pizza
- Following the pizza from shopping to dough to toppings
Expect
- Shopping, dough-making, toppings, and animal friends who pitch in
- A familiar tale with a surprising shift in how friends help
Where it sits
| Folktale Retellings | 80% |
|---|---|
| Cooking & Food | 67% |
| Farm Animal Stories | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Farm Animal Stories
- Folktale Retellings
- Cooking & Food
- Authors
- Philomen Sturges
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- November 11, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Making pizza · Friends helping one another
- Reading lane
- Farm Animal Stories