Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper

Abstract

This is one of ten landscape pamphlets of 24 pages each that come in two five-pamphlet sets. This set is labeled as "Volume II." Texts offer rhyming verse, and there is a flap at the end of each pamphlet to cover the right-hand picture while a young reader tries to make out the words on the left-hand page. The fables are told in the present tense. The computer-generated graphics seem to match up well with the texts. This version takes its own way in telling the fable. The ant, responding positively to the grasshopper's offer, plays with him until autumn, when she must collective food, since it is "winter's eve." The grasshopper plays on, since he "doesn't care." In winter, the grasshopper sees the ant "all full and fed." Here there is no request of the ant and therefore no rejection by her. The grasshopper remembers that "There's a time for playing and there's a time for working."