Grasshopper on the Road audiobook

This is one of the best books ever written and it's only a level reader. A level reader uses vocabulary appropriate for a particular reading level and is usually devoid of plot. This level reader is insightful and allegorical and biblical in its proportions. You heard me right. Next time you are in a room of adults with toddlers, bring up an Arnold Lobel title (Like Frog and Toad are Friends) and every parent will start amazing you with plot lines like so many children's variety show personalities... and I will tell you why.What he wrote delights a person to share them, and ALSO delights the recipient to hear them. Don't ask me how. Just know that these level readers have every literary device used in adult fiction, but are restricted to level vocabulary and typical children's characters and settings.Grasshopper On the Road is about The Everyman's journey through life meeting different personalities, but learning to retain one's self. Grasshopper meets some weird characters and all of them lay a trip on him for not becoming like them, but Grasshopper resists. In the end, his journey has been effective, because he has retained his own self along the way. Oh, but you don't care. You, along with your child, just laughed at the sweet little characters and funny dialog. But what happens to you is a little more profound. You can never forget these stories, now. Like a parent story zombie, whenever in life there is a trigger, you will recite the plot quite easily and someone else will then go read it. I support the saying, "If it is worth buying, you do not have to sell it." Well this book will never need advertising. The drones will take care of it.And now my job is done here.

My mother included this in a "sorry the pandemic closed all the libraries" book care package, and it has quickly become a favorite. I don't remember it...I think I must have read it, since I read all the Frog and Toad books, but maybe somehow it eluded me. It is so great. It is weird the way Frog and Toad books are weird. Both my 2 year old and 5 year old love it and demand it constantly. My favorite part is the beetles in the "Up with Mornings" club, who quickly turn on Grasshopper when he admits he also likes afternoons. My kids will just randomly quote the morning-loving beetles at the dinner table now. I also love the butterflies who do the same thing every day. I think my kids like the mosquito ferryman the best. This is a great book for doing voices, since you can create a new one for each different kind of bug.

One of Lobel's most charming works, which I may have missed as a child, or else forgotten.There is a dense, fabulist texture to these simple stories of a grasshopper traveling from place to place, meeting various insects. The grasshopper's sanguine, live-and-let-live attitude allows us to appreciate the idiosyncrasies of characters like morning beetles, routine-bound butterflies, and the proud mosquito. It reminds me that living in a community, any community, will run you up against a host of personalities, some more mystifying than others—but that ultimately, sticking to your own road and journeying your own journey is the way forward.I love Arnold Lobel.

GRASSHOPPER ON THE ROAD is a great book. Grasshopper wanted to go on a journey. First, he met beetles. The beetles said, "Morning is Tops." Second, he met a worm. The worm said, "There is a hole in my roof," because Grasshopper took a bite of the apple that the worm was living in. Third, he met a housefly. The housefly swept dust in his eyes. Fourth, he met a mosquito. The mosquito said, "You must hop in my boat." Fifth, he met butterflies. The butterflies do the same thing everyday. Sixth, he met dragonflies. The dragonflies led him to a comfy place. Last, he went to sleep.

On some days you need to curl up with a children's book which would remind you to smell flowers, look at sunsets, and reaffirm that it is okay to love mornings, afternoons, and nights.

Grasshopper discovers all sorts of intolerance and unwillingness to grow and change. There is a beetle club, a housefly with OCD, an entrepreneurial mosquito who is also somewhat conceited, butterflies who love establishing traditions. There is also a worm's gracious acceptance of fate in a Mr Bill-esque sequence "My floor is on the ceiling! My attic is in the cellar!"

This is such a pleasant book to read. Tonight at bed time, I was the one saying "one more chapter...one more chapter...".

Children's Reading Adventures Book Club, Summer 2014*D.E.A.R. Time -- Read to 4 & 5 year olds*06.02.2014

The final passage goes like this:"The world was quiet again.The sky became dark.Grasshopper watched the moonrising over the land.He watched the stars come out.He was happyto be walking slowly down the road.Grasshopper was tired.He lay down in a soft place.He knew that in the morningthe road would still be there,taking him on and onto whereverhe wanted to go."Having just hiked my way across Wales, I am seeing the ending with new eyes. It's so simple, but powerful and full of beauty. It evoked the same sense of comfort that I had every night at the B&Bs sandwiched between my long days of walking across valleys, up hills, and over icy streams. The relief, the joy, the PEACE. Ugh. More than any other part of the book, the last two pages have a special place in my heart.

This is a new favorite in the Arnold Lobel collection! I think it is charming, adorable, and shows the subtle intricacies of the various characters we meet particularly in life of policy, economics, and the market place. My three year old does not like this book very much... yet. He tolerates it because I do great voices with it and read it enthusiastically, but we cannot ever finish it in one sitting, because he gets bored. I think he cannot yet relate to the characters (in comparison to The Little Pig-- which we read two or three times a day).

Muy bonito, tanto historia como ilustraciones. Me está encantando los libros de este autor 😍 Necesito tenerlos todos 😊__________________It was very beautiful, both history and illustrations. I am loving the books of this author 😍 I need to have all of them 😊