Little Ant and the Grasshopper: If You Choose a Job You Love, You Will Never Have to Work a Day in Your Life

The ants think they are better than the grasshoppers, until a long, boring winter sets in. Cooped up in the anthill, they miss the grasshoppers' entertainment. Can Little Ant help his friend make it through the winter doing what loves?This re-imagining of Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper" turns the classic fable on its head, melding Aesop's moral about the virtue of hard work with the wisdom of Confucius: If you choose a job that you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.About the SeriesThe Little Ant Books were created with social emotional learning (SEL) in mind. Kids learn best by example. Little Ant often acts on his big feelings before taking a moment to think about what he is doing. As they see Little Ant learn from his mistakes, kids will develop a deeper understanding of their own emotions. The stories can be used as a learning tool to help kids discover the small gap that exists between feeling and acting - a gap in which thinking and choosing how we want to