Publisher’s Story Summary: Kids love pizza, and they will love this cleverly illustrated, up-to-date retelling of the traditional Little Red Hen story. In this new version, the intrepid fowl spies a can of tomato sauce in her cupboard and knows it's time to make a lovely little pizza.

Children will enjoy following the process of making a pizza as the Little Red Hen--who can get no help from the duck, the dog, or the cat--buys an appropriate pan, kneads the dough, cuts and chops vegetables (and other stuff) for a fabulous topping, and bakes a humongous pizza ("It was lovely, but it wasn't little"). Despite many a "Not I," the duck, the dog, and the cat finally do help out (of course) in ways that will surprise and delight young readers.

Amy Walrod's exuberant, witty cut-paper art combines interesting composition with humorous expression and detail to create a world that gives a special accent to the offbeat adaptation.

LESSON: THE LITTLE RED HEN MAKES A PIZZA

Lesson Summary
 
When Little Red Hen decides to make a pizza, she discovers she doesn't have the necessary tools and ingredients. So she buys all the ingredients she needs and produces a large enough pizza to feed her friends.

Concept: Producers

Definition: Producers are people who make goods or provide services.

Comprehension Questions

Explain why Little Red Hen decided to produce a pizza.
She was hungry and had one can of tomatoes. She thought a pizza sounded wonderful.

Identify the tool (capital resource) that Little Red Hen needed but could not find to produce the pizza.
Pizza pan.

List all the tools (capital resources) that Little Red Hen purchased at the hardware store to help her make the pizza. Pizza pan, large mixing bowl, pizza slicer.

Explain the economic problem that Little Red Hen faced when she looked for the ingredients to make the pizza.
Scarcity of flour, scarcity of mozzarella cheese.

How did Little Red Hen solve her scarcity problems?
She went to the market to buy flour. She went to the delicatessen to purchase cheese.

List the steps to make the dough.
She put the ingredients in the mixing bowl; then she stirred, mixed, kneaded, pounded, rolled, folded, and spun the dough around her head.

Identify the other steps Little Red Hen performed to produce the pizza after she put the dough in the pan?
She made the topping and then put the pizza in the oven to bake.

Who helped Little Red Hen consume the pizza she had produced?
The duck, the dog, the cat.

Little Red Hen produced the pizza without any help from her friends. Explain how the duck, the dog, and the cat could have helped the producers.
Answers may vary. They could have helped with grocery shopping, making the dough, and making the topping.

Other Concepts: Goods and Services, Economic Wants, Human Resources, Capital Resources, Scarcity, Consumers, Market

  Producers