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The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused.
The ants were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, “Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?’ He replied, “I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing.”
The Ant and the Grasshopper — Long long time ago. Aesop. Retold and illustrated by Rohini Chowdhury. Once there lived an ant and a grasshopper in a grassy meadow. All day long the ant would work hard, collecting grains of wheat from the farmer’s field far away.
The Ants & the Grasshopper. One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
THE ANTS & THE GRASSHOPPER. 2021. Feature Documentary. Directed by Raj Patel and Zak Piper. Edited by John Farbrother, Katarina Simic. Producers Cynthia Kane, Peter Mazunda, Rachel Wexler. Executive Producers Julie Goldman, Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Jolene Pinder, Steve James. Kartemquin Films.
1. Can the grasshopper play any musical instrument? 2. What two kinds of food did the ant carry to the anthill? 3. In what season did the ant and grasshopper first meet? 4. Why does the ant save food in the summer? 5. What do you think happened to the grasshopper at the end of the story?
May 26, 2021 · The Ants & the Grasshopper: Directed by Raj Patel, Zak Piper. Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village.
