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The Little Red Hen
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32 pages, Hardcover
First published April 30, 1993
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Stephen Holmes
97 books12 followersStephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
Holmes' research centers on the history of European liberalism, the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism, and the difficulty of combating international Salafi terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law. In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy. He was a member of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin during the 1991-92 academic year. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003-2005 for his work on Russian legal reform. Besides numerous articles on the history of political thought, democratic and constitutional theory, state-building in post-communist Russia, and the war on terror, his publications include: Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1984); Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993); Passions and Constraint: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995); The Cost of Rights, coauthored, with Cass Sunstein (1998); and Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (2007).
After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1976, Holmes (b. 1948) taught briefly at Yale and Wesleyan Universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1978. He next moved to Harvard University's Department of Government, where he stayed until 1985, the year he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago where he taught, in both the Political Science Department and the Law School, until 1997. From 1997-2000, Holmes was Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In 2000, he moved to New York University School of Law where he is currently Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and faculty co-director of the Center on Law and Security.
At the University of Chicago, Holmes was Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe. At Chicago and NYU he also served and as editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review (1993-2003). In addition, he has also been the Director of the Soros Foundation program for promoting legal reform in Russia and Eastern Europe (1994-96).
Holmes' research centers on the history of European liberalism, the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism, and the difficulty of combating international Salafi terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law. In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy. He was a member of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin during the 1991-92 academic year. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003-2005 for his work on Russian legal reform. Besides numerous articles on the history of political thought, democratic and constitutional theory, state-building in post-communist Russia, and the war on terror, his publications include: Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1984); Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993); Passions and Constraint: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995); The Cost of Rights, coauthored, with Cass Sunstein (1998); and Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (2007).
After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1976, Holmes (b. 1948) taught briefly at Yale and Wesleyan Universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1978. He next moved to Harvard University's Department of Government, where he stayed until 1985, the year he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago where he taught, in both the Political Science Department and the Law School, until 1997. From 1997-2000, Holmes was Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In 2000, he moved to New York University School of Law where he is currently Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and faculty co-director of the Center on Law and Security.
At the University of Chicago, Holmes was Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe. At Chicago and NYU he also served and as editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review (1993-2003). In addition, he has also been the Director of the Soros Foundation program for promoting legal reform in Russia and Eastern Europe (1994-96).
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June 5, 2022
This series is totally and complete fantasic in so many ways .
The stories will live for children for ever and ever as one says .
The physical presentation in as magical as the stories and it so marvelous to see these timeless stories renewed once agin for the new generations to enjoy as much as we did when we were children.
Timeless Wonders !
The stories will live for children for ever and ever as one says .
The physical presentation in as magical as the stories and it so marvelous to see these timeless stories renewed once agin for the new generations to enjoy as much as we did when we were children.
Timeless Wonders !
December 5, 2019
A tale of Little Red Hen who asks help from other animals in the farm to plant wheat and help in cutting and taking to the mill to make into flour. She does evrything on her own and gets the soft and fluffy bread. It is educational for children to understand that nothing can be got free and helping hands are always a must.
October 20, 2017
This book is about a little red who wanted to make wheat and she wanted help but she didn’t have any help because the lazy cat, dog and rat didn’t want to help her make wheat at all. But then at the end of the book just because they didn’t help they still wanted some of her wheat and the hen said no because they should have helped her make some so the next time they helped her make some
What I would use this book for is class is to show the kids that if you want something and you don't help with it then you wont get it. So pretty much you have to work for what you want and that it is not just going to come to you just like that.
What I would use this book for is class is to show the kids that if you want something and you don't help with it then you wont get it. So pretty much you have to work for what you want and that it is not just going to come to you just like that.
October 9, 2017
Cute book, enjoyed the inside-cover maplike drawing too.
What I didn't like is the moral: so if your friends don't help you, you don't offer them your bread? In this retelling the hen could have said at the last station, that if you guys don't help me, don't come asking for a piece! Or at the very end she could have asked them "Why didn't you help me? It's not fair that I do all the work and you take credit for it!' and not let little readers know if she gave them some bread or not.
What I didn't like is the moral: so if your friends don't help you, you don't offer them your bread? In this retelling the hen could have said at the last station, that if you guys don't help me, don't come asking for a piece! Or at the very end she could have asked them "Why didn't you help me? It's not fair that I do all the work and you take credit for it!' and not let little readers know if she gave them some bread or not.
October 18, 2014
This book depicts the frustrations of the little red hen who finds a grain of wheat she wants to plans but receives no assistance from the other farmyard animals she asks for assistance. She consequently plants the seeds without assistance and when the time comes to harvest them, again she fails to get assistance. The hen finally completes her task and asks who will help her eat the bread. She is overwhelmed by offers to help her eat the bread, and she declines their help because none of them helped her. She goes on to eat with her chicks. The moral of this story is that those who show no willingness to contribute to a product do not deserve to enjoy the product: "if any would not work, neither should he eat."
I like this book because it teaches people that hard work pays off and that laziness doesn’t. This is a message that children should learn at an early stage in their lives. I would recommend this book to nursery and KS1 pupils. There is a lot of repetition which cements the message to the age group. The book is fun and engaging. You can read this as a class or in small groups.
I like this book because it teaches people that hard work pays off and that laziness doesn’t. This is a message that children should learn at an early stage in their lives. I would recommend this book to nursery and KS1 pupils. There is a lot of repetition which cements the message to the age group. The book is fun and engaging. You can read this as a class or in small groups.
June 2, 2015
My son's class re-enacted this classic tale in a school assembly, with my son cast as duck. After saying "Not I" he added a loud, and ad-lib, "so ha!"
Spoiler alert - he didn't get any bread, not even when it was stale and lumps were thrown in a pond.
Spoiler alert - he didn't get any bread, not even when it was stale and lumps were thrown in a pond.
February 21, 2016
This was my all out favourite as a child. I made my mother read it to me several times a day and soon knew it by heart
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October 17, 2017“The Little Red Hen” by Ronne Randall, published by Penguin UK, Copyright 2013
1) Awards this book has received: This book has not received any awards.
2) Appropriate Grade Level(s): This book is appropriate for preschool through second grade.
3) Summary: The hen decides to plant some wheat. No one will do anything to help her. In the end the hen makes a delicious loaf of bread and does not share it with anyone else.
Review: This book leaves children with the idea that you should always help your friends. I really like that animals are used in telling this story. The pictures are very vibrant and would keep the attention of young children.
4) Uses in the classroom:
-Identify major events in the story.
-Have children think-pair-share about what might have happened if the hen’s friends helped her to plant the wheat or make the bread.
-Have children help each other to plant some wheat and make bread.
1) Awards this book has received: This book has not received any awards.
2) Appropriate Grade Level(s): This book is appropriate for preschool through second grade.
3) Summary: The hen decides to plant some wheat. No one will do anything to help her. In the end the hen makes a delicious loaf of bread and does not share it with anyone else.
Review: This book leaves children with the idea that you should always help your friends. I really like that animals are used in telling this story. The pictures are very vibrant and would keep the attention of young children.
4) Uses in the classroom:
-Identify major events in the story.
-Have children think-pair-share about what might have happened if the hen’s friends helped her to plant the wheat or make the bread.
-Have children help each other to plant some wheat and make bread.
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