Little Ant’s Big Plan
Candice Dingwall Telri Stoop
Steven McKimmie
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Little Ant loved to read. Little Ant was often teased. ’Ants don’t read. Ants must feed. Ants collect the food they need.’
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Little Ant would read all day, he’d read and read the day away.
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The other ants took what they found to store for winter underground.
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His mum and dad got really mad, and Little Ant felt really bad.
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In autumn when the leaves fall down, the ants must keep food underground.
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The Queen wants food to fill the store, so all the ants must work some more.
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Little Ant begins to shout about a place he read about. ’A restaurant is what we need, a place where people go to feed. It says so in the books I read.’
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The ants go marching one by one. They march into the setting sun.
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And Little Ant said ’Hey, there’s one!’
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The ants go marching one by one, carrying a burger, carrying a bun.
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When they return the Queen is glad. The stores are full. They cheer like mad.
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Ant gets hugs from mum and dad.
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His baby sister takes his hand ’Now I think I understand.’ ’The way you love to read a book
… Makes me want to take a look.’
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Original Story
Little Ant’s Big Plan, written by Candice Dingwall, Telri Stoop.
Illustrations by Steven McKimmie. Published by Book Dash, http://bookdash.org/ © Book Dash. Released under CC BY 4.0.
This work is a modified version of the original story. © The Asia Foundation, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0.
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