1983

May 1983

  • Contents

  • Contents

  • Misnamed Creatures

    Erma Reynolds

  • Mom’s Horned-Toad House

    Alma J. Yates

  • Friend to Friend

    Joleen Meredith and Theodore M. Burton

  • Simon Can’t Say Hippopotamus

    Bonnie Taylor

  • Funstuf

    • There’s Work to Do

      Erma Reynolds

    • Word Diamond

      Barbara S. Neelands

    • Partner Match

      Margaret Shauers

    • In the Merry Month of May

      Doris A. Stone

    • Storybook Arithmetic

      Erma Reynolds

    • Women in History

      Janet Peterson

  • Spring Fever

    Abbie Padgett Dolgin

  • Mother’s Day Gifts

    Jane K. Priewe

  • I Like Round Things

    Ann Tompert

  • The Texture Hunt

    Joy N. Hulme

  • The Caterpillar

    Diane Malley

  • The Wise Ant

    Louise Hajek

  • Butterfly

    Candice Gillis

  • A Visit to the Zoo

    Margaret G. Mosher

  • Kitchen Krafts: Mother’s Day Dinner

    Winnifred and Ann Jardine

  • A Dollar Bill for Billy

    Shirley Climo

  • The Chicken Eggs

    Eva Grant

  • Sarah and the Lady

    Ruth Stewart Barth

  • Horse Sense

    Nadine Hawkins

  • Maria Makes a Choice

    Robin Phelps

  • Sharing Time: Remember Mother

    Pat Graham and Janice Gardiner Wright

  • The Lesson

    Dennis M. Van Wey

  • Samuel, the Boy Prophet

The Wise Ant
May 1983


“The Wise Ant,” Friend, May 1983, 22

The Wise Ant

By Louise Hajek

Although the ant is very small,

He doesn’t shirk his work at all.

He pulls and tugs and tries and tries,

And carries bread crumbs twice his size!

He gathers tidbits by the score

Until he has his winter’s store.

Then snug inside his earthly fold,

He’s safe against the winter cold.