Chicken Licken cultivates her own patch of wheat while her lazy farmyard companions just sit and look on. But they don't know which side their bread is buttered for when all's said and done, she doesn't have a crumb of sympathy for them!
There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2000 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .
Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice. His books are published all over the world.
This book contains the following story:
The Little Red Hen
The Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat and asks the other animals if they will help her to plant them. They will not. Neither will they help her to cut the wheat, have it ground into flour or made into bread. But when the Little Red Hen asks if the animals would like to help her eat the bread they are all totally up for it. However, the Little Red Hen refuses to share her bread with the animals who didnt do any of the work to make it.