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Hey, Little Ant We
Were There, Too! It's
Our World, Too!
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• Honor
Book, Jane Addams Peace Association;
• A Reading Rainbow Book;
• Now available in seven languages
• A Scholastic Book Club Selection
• 75,000 Hardcover copies sold
"A
masterpiece for classroom guidance...a
terrific tool for fostering tolerance and respect
for diversity in children of all ages."
--Teaching Tolerance
Magazine
"What
a great book!"
--Pete Seeger
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Hey, Little Ant:
Hey, little ant down in the crack
Can you hear me? Can you talk back?
See my shoe, can you see that?
Well now it's gonna squish you flat!
So begins a conversation between
a young boy and the ant trembling in the shadow
of his sneaker. This playful story brings up questions
about the ethics and peer pressure, encouraging
the very youngest citizens to decide for themselves:
to squish...or not to squish?!
In 1992, Phillip Hoose and his daughter
Hannah, then nine, wrote a musical conversation
between an ant about to get flattened and the
child about to squish it. It ended with the question,
"What do you think that kid should do?"
Their popular recording of the song "Hey
Little Ant" led to the story's publication
as a children's picture book in 1998, which has
become a runaway success. Now the ant and the
child – and their shared dilemma –
are known by parents, children and educators throughout
the world.
www.heylittleant.com
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