The Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat and asks her friends (a goose, cat, and dog) to help plant and take care of it. They all refuse, so she does all the work herself. When it is time to harvest the wheat, thresh it, take it to the mill to be made into flour, and bake it into bread, her friends again refuse to help. Once the bread is baked, the delicious smell attracts her friends, but the Little Red Hen refuses to let them eat the bread since they did not help with any of the work. She eats the bread all by herself.