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The ants have enough and tackle and shove Lucas into the queen's chamber, and the queen confronts him about all of the trouble he has caused the colony. When Lucas is too shocked to even respond to her, the queen takes it as an insult, and orders an ant wizard to shrink the boy down to the size of an ant and take him to trial, where the judge ...
Guards the sorcerer's stone in the dungeons, just as Cerberus guards the underworld in Greek mythology. Inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus reaches the underworld by putting Cerberus to sleep with a harp. Similarly, Harry Potter passes Fluffy by playing the flute in order to put Fluffy to sleep. [8] Flush: Cocker Spaniel
The two breeds of cocker spaniel are the English Cocker Spaniel and the American Cocker Spaniel. [14] They were bred as gun dogs , to use their sense of smell to cover low areas near the handler to flush birds into the air to be shot, and to use their eyes and nose to locate the bird once downed, and then to retrieve the bird with a soft mouth .
Martin is a children's author from Princeton, New Jersey. All of the characters in her books are fictional, although some are based on real people. [2] Martin has written many popular children's titles including The Baby-sitters Club series and the California Diaries series. [3] Her book A Corner of the Universe, received a Newbery Honor Award. [4]
In Philip Nel's analysis, a conflict between the book's plot and its illustrations leads to artistic tension. While the ants' return to the colony suggests "a victory for the bosses" and the narrative could be considered a "capitalist parable", the comparatively huge appliances in the kitchen, which terrify the ants, imply conspicuous consumption.
Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.
The Ant and the Elephant is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Bill Peet and was adapted into a family musical for the stage. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published by HMH Books for Young Readers in 1972, it is based on the Aesop Fable entitled The Dove and the Ant .
Boule et Bill relates the homely adventures of seven-year-old boy Boule and his dog Bill, a Cocker Spaniel, as well as that of Boule's mother and father and Caroline the turtle. Bill, while slightly anthropomorphized , basically acts as a normal dog, and the whole series places comical adventures in the realistic setting of a normal family in a ...