The Little Ant / La hormiga chiquita

by Michael Ramirez

A retelling of a popular Mexican folktale about a little ant teaches young readers how to accept and understand that bad things sometimes happen and includes both English and Spanish text.

31 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 1995

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Reviews

[Dave]

A really nice bilingual folktale.
It’s got a great biblical message at the end and is great practice for Spanish learners.

[Ricardo Contreras]

I liked this book, it was interesting and a little wierd. it had good colors and art, making it somewhat interesting to children. i really enjoyed having the story in English and Spanish. Apparently the story is based on a Mexican folklore. However, the story itself was wierd.This ant was walking through the snow when he broke his leg. so then he went to the jugde and complained. So the judge ordered the snow to appear to him, but the snow blamed it on the sun. The sun blamed it on the clouds and so on until God intervened and told them to live with what they had.