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When the grasshopper jumps the river and his friend the ant, following suit, falls in, the grasshopper asks a pig for some bristles with which to weave a rope for pulling out the ant. ""Feed me some acorns. Then you can take [some] bristles,"" answers the pig--and so begins one of those chains of conditions that most of us first encountered in The Old Woman and Her Pig. This one goes on and on, involving an oak tree, a raven, a hen, a barn, a mouse, a cat, and a cow before the grasshopper sets the chain in reverse by giving some grass to the cow. But the fun here is in watching the ant leaping from one waterborne peril to another as he waits for his belated rescue. McCrady's pictures of gay pink-toned animals and exotic flora look slightly washed-out overall, but her ant's amusing wordless adventures do perk up an old story. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.