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Title
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The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb: A Mexican Fable
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Retold by Shirley Climo
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Creator
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Climo, Shirley
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Contributor
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Mora, Francisco X.
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:53:39Z
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2008-05
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1995
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:53:39Z
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Date Issued
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1995
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Abstract
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This pleasant children's book tells a fable whose dynamics are like those in the story of the mouse daughter who should be married to the strongest in the world. Here the issue of strength is done more analogically. An ant smaller than her 999 cousins finds a cake crumb and wants to find someone strong enough to carry it home for her. Each one she asks ends up revealing someone stronger. The lizard has to wait for the sun to warm him up. The sun seems to be caught in a spider's web. The spider informs the ant that the rooster wakes the sun every morning. The rooster runs away from the chicken-chaser, the coyote. The coyote is afraid of the hombre. The ant, trying to ask the hombre for help, climbs up into his ear. The man shakes the ant off, shouting Ticklebugs! On 33, the ant realizes I frighten El Hombre…who scares El Coyote…who chases El Gallo…who wakes El Sol…who warms El Lagarto…who can blow down an anthill. So…I AM THE STRONGEST OF ALL! She carries the crumb home, lives off of it all winter, and the next year is as big as all of her cousins. The final page offers a moral: You can do it if you think you can. The version is presented as based on a Spanish tale, with a distinctly Mexican flavor. Nicely done!
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Identifier
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9780395720974 (pbk.)
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6271 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Clarion Books
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New York
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Subject
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PZ7.C62247 Li 1995
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One fable
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole