Hey, Little Ant

Respect

Summary: A boy is walking and sees and ant in a crack on the sidewalk. He started too squish the ant. However the ant cried out for the boy not too. Meanwhile the two talked about why the boy should squish him and why he should not.

Personal Reaction: I thought this book was very cute. I liked how the boy and the ant had a conversation as if it were real. Children's imagination is wonderful. I also liked how the book was used in poetry.

Classroom Extension Ideas: This is a good book to ask the children if they have ever talked to an insect. Or if they have ever imagined anything like the boy had done. ( )

Hey, Little Ant. By: Phillip and Hannah Hoose. This book is a conversation between a boy and an ant. The boy wants to squish the ant because he says he has no purpose. The ant explains to the boy he is the same as a human and does the same thing that humans need to do. The ant leaves the boy with a choice weather or not he should squish him. ( )

Another favorite. It starts out with the kid talking about how easy it would be to squish the ant. Each page rotates between the kid and the ant, so it is great for two people to read together, one the ant and the other the kid. It ends with "what should the kid do, squish the ant or let him go free? What would you do? It gets kids thinking about the ants point of view, as well as how all animals must feel. ( )

When a little boy sets out to squish an ant, the trembling ant pleads for his life, in a playful story about ethics and peer pressure.