The Grasshopper and the Ants

Abstract

This is a 24-page booklet made apparently for developing fluidity in English through reader's theater. Each volume begins with a resume of the story and two pages of tips on reader's theater by Aaron Shepherd. The six characters are clearly laid out and their names are marked by different colors as the play goes through its five acts. There are two narrators for this script, as well as two ants. A poem, a song, and a glossary finish off the booklet. A repeated design marks 6 through 24. The one fuller illustration, on the book's front cover and title-page, shows a line of ants carrying off grains while the grasshopper perches on top of a mushroom.