Ant and Grasshopper

Title

en_US Ant and Grasshopper

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Sixth printing

en_US Luli Gray

Creator

en_US Gray, Luli See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Ferri, Giuliano

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:42Z

en_US 2016-07

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US Here is a refreshingly innovative presentation -- in watercolor and colored pencil -- that, in a surprise ending, has the ant discovering the wanna-be singer in himself. Ant is an accountant who wears pince-nez and wears a visor. He counts the items in his storeroom every afternoon. Grasshopper wears a red cap and plays a fiddle. When Ant says "Well, I never!" Grasshopper responds "Well, I always." Grasshopper's fiddling sometimes confuses Ant: "Drat that hoppergrass!" At Grasshopper's first winter request, Ant slams the door and returns to counting. In a November dream, Ant is a performer hearing "Play! Dance! Sing!" He can do nothing. He gets up to seek and find Grasshopper on his doorstep. After he tells him to go home and hears "No home," he drags him into the house and before the fire. After many winter days and nights together, the two catch each other saying "Anyone can count" and "Anyone can sing." The book's good last line is "Everybody counts!" I like this book!

Identifier

en_US 11019 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107747

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Margaret K. McElderry Books

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.G684An 2011 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole