This is a book by the same author/illustrator who made the Frog and Toad books. It is several chapters long and tells the story of a grasshopper, Grasshopper who sets out on a road to find adventure. Each chapter tells the story of Grasshopper interacting with different animals and insects along the way.
I really liked this story because there is a lot of wit and depth involved in each of Grasshopper's interactions with other characters. For example, in the first chapter Grasshopper meets a group of beetles who are members of a club dedicated to celebrating how great morning is. Grasshopper is welcomed into this club with enthusiasm after agreeing that morning is nice, until he mentions that he also likes afternoon and evening. The beetles immediately reject Grasshopper and leave him alone, because they think people who like the afternoon and evening are stupid.
I may be reading into this too much but I thought this story could teach readers something about human nature. I took this story to be an example of how similarities can bring people together and also that fanaticism can lead people to turn on others the minute they find they are in disagreement about something.
These subtle yet profound lessons make Lobel one of my favorite children's book writers.
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