Walt Disney's: The Grasshopper and the Ants - Hardcover

Brown, Margaret Wise

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9781562825355: Walt Disney's: The Grasshopper and the Ants

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ISBN 10: 1562825356 ISBN 13: 9781562825355

Publisher: Disney Press, 1993

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A grasshopper who sings and dances all summer while the ants diligently gather food, winds up cold and hungry when winter arrives.

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Well before Goodnight, Moon , Brown retold a series of classic stories for Walt Disney, among them this kindly version of the classic Aesop's fable. Moore's intensely colored, filmic illustrations magnify a miniature world and add an art deco flavor. His top-hatted, unsinkably jaunty grasshopper breezes onto the summer landscape, fiddling and singing--and ignored, for the most part, by the diligent ants. A particularly effective spread shows the industrious insects slicing carrots with a crosscut saw and sending radishes down a wooden chute. After the first snowfall, of course, the happy-go-lucky hopper's tune changes and, frozen and remorseful, he knocks at the ants' door and asks for help. Lessening the severity of the original fable, Brown reverses the ending: her ants welcome the grasshopper, warm him up with a bowl of "hot corn soup" and hire him to be the anthill's resident entertainer. All ages.
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