Then the little bug also speaks and in the end equalizes the roles of all of the insects alongside the king. That makes for a great read aloud where storytellers can get into the character and exaggerate it for comic effect. Miyares has written this picture book entirely in dialogue and almost all of it in the imperious and demanding voice of the grasshopper. Luckily though, the small pebble that the little bug brought is just right to save the day. But it is not balanced and begins to tip. Now the grasshopper king has created a pedestal to sit high upon with all of the rocks piled one upon another. One though, carried by the smallest insect is not worthy of being part of his pedestal and is rejected along with the little bug who brought it. So the insects bring back rocks and the king accepts most of them with little grace. A demanding grasshopper wearing a crown insists that the other insects bring him a rock! Big rocks to build his pedestal so that it is suitable for a king.
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