I read this book to my kids when they were young. Today, it would be college level reading, but all Americans should read it:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Red_Fox_and_His_Canoe.html?id=qLaOzgEACAAJ
Little Red Fox gets a big canoe from his father. He goes out fishing. Forest animals see his big, empty canoe and want to ride in it. In his good nature, Red Fox let’s them in, one by one. The canoe gets overcrowded and breaks in half, and all Red Fox’s “friends” abandon him. He is left to paddle home in a piece of his broken canoe.
The story I liked was The Little Red Hen....
Little Red Hen finds some wheat seeds
She asks “Who will help me sow these seeds ?”
Every other animal in the farm yard are too too tired, too busy, too lazy, its beneath their pay grade, not interested etc
LRH says “OK my children and I will sow these seeds”
And so they do
The seeds grow and the wheat needs watering
LRH asks “Who will help me water the wheat ?”
Again the other animals have excuses
and again LRH says “OK my children and I will water the wheat”
And so they do
The wheat grows tall and is ready for harvest
LRH asks “Who will help me harvest the wheat ?”
And again the animals have excuses
LRH says “Ok my children and I will harvest the wheat.
And so they do
Now the wheat needs threshing/milling
LRH asks “Who will help me take the wheat to the miller ?”
And again the other animals have excuses
LRH says “OK my children and I will take the wheat to the miller”
And so they do
The miller grinds the wheat into flour
LRH asks “Who will help me carry the bags of flour to my house ?”
And yet again the other animals have excuses.
LRH says “OK my children and I will take the bags of flour home”
LRH bakes beautiful loaves of bread and as the lovely smell drifts through her open windows the other animals gather outside her door, drooling.
LHR comes out and asks “Who will help me eat the loaves of bread ?”
“Me, me me” say the other animals grinning expectantly.
LRH says, “No, you wont. You were too tired, busy, lazy, ill, uninterested to help me sow the seeds, water the wheat, harvest the wheat, carry the wheat the miller, carry the flour to my house, and bake the loaves of bread. My children and I did all that work, alone. Since you are too tired, busy, lazy, uninterested in working, then you are too tired, busy, lazy, uninterested in eating. My children and I did all the work. So my children and I will eat the loaves of bread.”
And the LRH locked her door and shut and locked her windows and she and her children ate the delicious loaves of bread.
He who will not work, will not eat, either. 2 Thessalonians 3:10