The fable concerns a grasshopper that has spent the warm months singing while the ant worked to store up food for winter. When that season arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger and begs the ant for food.
This fable is about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

This book features in the following series: Fables, Short Tales Fables .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Rob M. Worley broke into writing comics with the kung fu and sorcery book "Young Ancient One", published by Marvel in 2004. Since then he's written for DC Comics, Actionopolis, Arcana, Image, Desperado, IDW and numerous other small press publishers.