A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): on a bright autumn day, a starving Grasshopper who spent the summer making music begs the busy Ants for food, and they tell him, “Very well; now dance!”
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Ants and the Grasshopper: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Autumn was almost over, but the day was bright and warm. The leaves were red and gold. A family of Ants hurried here and there. Busy, busy, busy!
The Ants were drying out their grain, the little seeds they had stored up all summer long. Out they carried the seeds, one by one, and spread them in the warm sunshine.
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