The Grasshopper and the Ant
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Date
1993. Henry Holt. NY
Category
Book containing one fable.
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xMini. PZ8.2.P435To 1993 (Carlson Fable Collection, BIC bldg)
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1993
Book containing one fable
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Here is the second of two extra copies bought at the same time. Good, lively art in a dramatic story. Lots of sympathy goes here to the ant, apparently a single parent, who works hard for her children. Her home is a cozy paradise in winter, stocked with the food she has gathered and the blankets she has woven. The lazy grasshopper is turned away completely, and the ant teaches her children a strange moral, I would say: Always save for a rainy day. The tone of the story is not resolved to my satisfaction. Little black-and-white designs set off the text pages that alternate with full-page colored art.