A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken's habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head. It's time for the little red chicken's bedtime story --and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can't help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters from doing some dangerous or silly thing. Now it's the little red chicken's turn to tell a story, but will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?
The little red chicken is so familiar with all the stories her Papa has to read to her that she can’t help interrupting and warning the characters not to make their typical mistakes. She saves Hansel and Gretel from the old witch, Little Red Riding Hood from the wolf, and Chicken Little from his own unnecessary worry. Finally, the chicken's Papa announces there are no more bedtime stories to try and read. When little red chicken insists she cannot fall asleep without a story, and she is surely done interrupting, Papa turns the tables and asks little red chicken to tell him a story instead. Little red chicken is excited to do so, but she is surprised when Papa soon provides an interruption of his own.