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This is about an ant who finds a crumb! He works very hard to keep and push the cake crumb all the way to the anthill. This book can be helpful for students who are second language learners. There are several words that are Spanish. This can also help other students learn about other languages. ( )

24 months - a cute story that is well told and introduces young and old to a handful of Spanish words. The word pronunciations are included in the back of the book for parents with little knowledge of the language. O really likes the story and wants us to read it over and over. It is a bit long for a before bed story, a-lot a bit of time for this one. ( )

A little red ant, smaller than the 999 cousins with whom she lives, is delighted to discover a sweet-smelling piece of cake during the course of her foraging, but unsure how she is to transport it back to the anthill. Seeking help from a series of creatures, each of whom she judges to be stronger than the last - the sun is needed, to warm El Legarto, the lizard, so the sun must be stronger; the sun is "caught" in La Araña's web, so the spider must be stronger still; and so on - our myrmicine heroine eventually discovers, to her surprise, who is strongest of all...

A Mexican variant of an animals fable that - according to the brief author's afterword - can also be found in France, Spain and Portugal, The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb is an engaging tale, well matched by Francisco Mora's charming watercolor illustrations. Young readers, who might occasionally feel like the smallest and weakest themselves, will appreciate this story of a tiny creature's discovery of her own power. I do wish - as I often do - that the author had given more detailed information, as to source. It's all very well to say that this is a fable found in a number of countries, but where did this variant come from? What text, what teller? Leaving that issue aside (and it is probably of interest mainly to folklorists), this is a book I would recommend to all young folktale lovers. ( )

This is a story about a little ant that is trying to get a delicious crumb cake back to the ant hill. He doesn't think that he is strong enough, and so he looks for help. He finds lots of other animals and even a human, but in the end he discovers that he is strong enough on his own. ( )