“If I were a duck, and a hunter chased me, I would swim underwater and run away from him…” the ant thinks and wishes she was a deer or a lizard to escape being squashed. But a surprising incidence teaches her that being tiny has advantages. A book that encourages conversation with children about their abilities.
Age Group: The orchard
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GeneralDear Parents,
The ant wishes that she was a lion, a deer, or a chameleon so that she could easily escape from danger, but she changed her mind when she heard the wish of the hunted bull to be an ant so he could disappear in the hole of a needle!
Our child often wavers between their desire to grow up quickly to be able to do what older kids can do, and their limited capabilities and size due to their young age. Sometimes we see them anxious, constantly testing their ability to reach a high shelf, for example, and bragging loudly about it if they could!
The ant in our story tells our child to see their current abilities and use them to the maximum, because growth is a process that has its own timing and pace. The ant also tells children who are smaller in size, for whatever reason, to see what their small size enables them to do during their daily activities, instead of focusing on what it hinders them from.
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