El fuertecito rojo (The Little Red Fort)

I loved this multicultural update of The Little Red Hen. My favorite thing was that the brothers learned a lesson and happily corrected their behavior and were happily forgiven.......more

Brilliant picture book by Brenda Maier, with great artwork. Ruby is a little girl who decides to build a fort in her backyard, though her brothers won't help her. They change their tune after they see just how awesome a fort it is.......more

A girl decides to build a fort and tries to recruit her brothers to help, but to no avail. Instead, she builds the fort herself. After the fort is built, the brothers are suddenly motivated to add some improvements to the fort and the girl includes them in an in-fort evening with cookies. This little......more

I love how her mom and grandma help her with the building too!......more

I liked this twist. I find The Little Red Hen iterations/allusions with its repetition boring generally, but I really liked that this had an updated "item" that the character is making that would be something kids are more likely to identify with and I LOVED that the characters that refused to help,......more