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Ant, ant, ant! (An Insect Chant)

April Pulley Sayre

Illustrated by Trip Park

Picture Book

Ages 4 to 7

Northword, 2005, 1-55971-922-2

  Our world is full of insects of all kinds and let’s face it, most of us really don’t like these little creatures which buzz and creep, which zizz, and skitter. We’ll put with butterflies because they are pretty but the rest of them? The beetles and fleas, the bugs and caterpillars? Well, we just don’t like them and that’s a fact.

  Well, let’s take a closer look at these creepy crawlies. Let’s give them a chance to introduce themselves in the simplest of terms. We are not going to discuss their biology, their morphology, how they benefit mankind, how they are a part of nature. We are just going to meet them face to face.

  So, here they are. Here is the mole cricket and the bouncing flea, here is the bashful stinkbug, and the smiling ant. Here is the doodlebug sitting at the bottom of its trap, and the poor treehopper about to become its dinner. Here is the boatman beetle swimming underwater and here is the comma butterfly fluttering by the man’s head.

 In this clever and often outrageously funny picture book readers will get to see insects in a whole new way. Trip Park has used his computer to create some deliciously hilarious insect characters who are likeable, disgusting, goofy, and ridiculous. We will find ourselves being drawn to these insects quite in spite of ourselves. To go with these pictures there is a simple, bouncy, sing-songy, rhyming text which young children will have a lot of fun with.

  At the back of the book readers will find four pages of interesting information about the insects who make appearances in the book. They will learn all kinds of facts which will boggle the mind. Who would thought that insects could do so much, be so useful, and be so versatile?

 

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