As the ants work all summer and fall to prepare for winter, grasshopper dances and plays. When winter comes, grasshopper is cold and hungry and it's the ants turn to play. Find the moral to Aesop's fable in the easy-to-read, brilliantly illustrated Short Tales Fable The Ants and the Grasshopper. Short Tales is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades 1-4.