The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb

by Shirley Climo

Book Overview

This distinctly Mexican version of an old fable found in Spain, Portugal, and France is retold and updated by a well-known storyteller. The little red ant has found a wonderful crumb, but she's not... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395720974
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

used for summer reading

I purchased this book to go with the theme of summer reading which was to catch the reading bug. We read the book out loud to 15 k-5 graders and they thought the book was cute. I would recommend the book highly to kids.

The little red ant and the great big crumb

Great resource for unit on ants to teach ESL for pk-k.

the little red ant.

Once upon a time, there was a little red ant,she was the only one who was different from her family.she was more shorter than her family members,her red color was more darker than the rest of the family members.One day she was looking for food,for the winter,so she can put her food in her small house.sudenly,she found a big crumb of cake,she was surprise and wonder that she wanted to take home,but there was a problem, she was too little to carry, then she was looking for help with the rest of the animals from that place, but no one help her.But she never give up and she found a alligator,that was trying to eat her,and she scape and she said that she can carry that big crumb of cake,and she did,and she knew that no matter how small she was, you never have to give up.

Great kids book!

Nicely written and beautifully illustrated children's fable. Everything you want in a children's book. I'm giving it to my grandaughter!

A WONDERFUL BOOK!

This book is wonderful! I read it all the time.Why I give this book 5 stars is because this book is really fun to read and I think that children might like this book too.The ant talks about how he might eat it when he is jut so small.