Reviews for The Little Red Hen

The average rating for The Little Red Hen based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-12 00:00:00 David Kernan The Little Red Hen (academic version) Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who worked at a university's computer science department. She was friends with a lazy dog, a sleepy cat, and a noisy yellow duck. One day the little red hen had an idea. She thought it might make a good paper. The little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me develop the idea?" "Not I," barked the lazy dog. "Not I," purred the sleepy cat. "Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck. "Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen developed the idea all by herself. When the idea had been developed, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me implement the code?" "Not I," barked the lazy dog. "Not I," purred the sleepy cat. "Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck. "Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen implemented the code all by herself. When all the code had been written, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me run the experiments?" "Not I," barked the lazy dog. "Not I," purred the sleepy cat. "Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck. "Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen ran the experiments all by herself. When the experiments had all been run, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me write the paper?" "Not I," barked the lazy dog. "Not I," purred the sleepy cat. "Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck. "Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen wrote the paper all by herself. When the paper was finished, the tired little red hen asked her friends, "Who wants to have their name on it?" "I do!" barked the lazy dog. "I do!" purred the sleepy cat. "I do!" quacked the noisy yellow duck. "No!" said the little red hen. "I had the idea. I implemented the code. I ran the experiments. I wrote the paper. So I'm only going to put my name on it, and no one else's." The little red hen was just about to submit her paper to a prestigious journal, and was feeling pretty good about herself, when the head of department intervened. "Hen," he said sternly, "what's this I hear about your paper? You need to learn to be a team player. Put more of your colleagues' names on it. Oh, and make sure that mine is first." "Yes sir," said the little red hen humbly. And I'm told that only fifteen years later she did in fact get tenure. THE END

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-08 00:00:00 Frankie Coyner First sentence: Once upon a time there was a little red hen who shared her tiny cottage with a goose, a cat, and a dog. Premise/plot: This is a traditional telling of The Little Red Hen illustrated by Lucinda McQueen. My thoughts: I enjoyed this one. I like the illustrations very much. I particularly love the illustrations of the cat and the dog. The text is traditional. There are no big surprises with the text. The Little Red Hen doesn't have a change of heart, she doesn't decide to share with the cat and the dog. Text: 3 out of 5 Illustrations: 4 out of 5 Total: 7 out of 10