The Ant and the Grasshopper: An Aesop Fable

Title

en_US The Ant and the Grasshopper: An Aesop Fable

en_US Seven Fables from Aesop

en_US GEP4

Description

en_US Retold by Philip and Patricia Spensley

Creator

en_US Spensley, Philip See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Torrans, Robert

Date

2017-05-15T20:33:57Z

en_US 2015-08

en_US 1972

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:33:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1972

Abstract

en_US This version of GA with strong duochrome illustrations in yellow and black tells the tale at its simplest. The grasshopper dies in the end. The story depicts the grasshopper as very happy in summer; sometimes versions seeing the grasshopper as lazy do not describe or picture him as happy. The ant should just "sit here and sing like me," the grasshopper suggests. "Winter is too far away to think about." Again later, "Work, work, work. That's all you ever do. Why don't you rest a bit and sing with me?" "There's lots of time to gather food before winter comes." The ant uses a coaster-wagon to portage his food to the ant-hill.

Identifier

en_US 11138 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/112981

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Gage Educational Publishing Ltd.

en_US Vancouver, Canada

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S67Sev 1972 v.4 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole