Project Gutenberg 2025-06-23 Public domain in the USA. 211 Wade, Blanche Elizabeth 1872 1928 Cady, Harrison 1877 1970 Cady, Walter Harrison Cady, W. Harrison (Walter Harrison) 24022801 Ant ventures $aChicago :$bRand McNally & Company, $c1924. Alan, Susan E. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Ant ventures by Blanche Elizabeth Wade is a children’s chapter book of animal adventures written in the early 20th century. It follows Anthony Ant, a restless young ant sent on a “change-of-scene” journey prescribed by Dr. Alexander Beetle Bug, as he circles a meadow-world and meets a parade of insects and small creatures. The episodes are whimsical and gently moral, touching on politeness, courage, work, and finding joy beyond grumbling. The opening of this tale shows Anthony sulking over chores until a beetle doctor’s “prescription” sends him traveling with a lunch basket and toiletry case. He loses his hat to a Field Mouse, narrowly escapes a Flicker by diving into an Angleworm’s doorway, ferries a brook on makeshift “boats,” and learns from a fussy Caterpillar not to quarrel. His courtesy to a Ladybug and a small Spider (Size Two) earns him a birthday outing at the Wild-Rose Tea House and a restocked basket; they share a serene chip-boat cruise and a lively insect band concert before he faces the night alone. Swept downstream and bruised, he treats himself with his mother’s supplies, scavenges food, works for a Mole family’s supper, and receives a calming “Night pass” from an August Croaker. A Robin’s theft of a berry whisks him into a tree, where he hides under bark, salvages the berry, meets a Squirrel, a Woodpecker, and tree-dwelling ants, and resumes his trek—ending with a stern Grasshopper’s advice about keeping one’s temper just as he admits he has no hat to “paste” a motto in. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/antventures0000wade/mode/2up 20250427044454wade 1924 US Reading ease score: 86.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Adventure stories Insects -- Juvenile fiction Ants -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels 239126 2025-07-30T07:51:27.200570 text/html 211098 2025-06-23T17:18:52 text/html 4903541 2025-07-30T07:51:33.459552 application/epub+zip 4900072 2025-07-30T07:51:28.653560 application/epub+zip 356274 2025-07-30T07:51:27.901544 application/epub+zip 5846178 2025-07-30T07:51:36.777519 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5814464 2025-07-30T07:51:32.830544 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 198279 2025-07-30T07:51:26.402579 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 178401 2025-06-23T17:18:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14878 2025-07-30T07:51:36.945504 application/rdf+xml 30921 2025-07-30T07:51:28.110565 image/jpeg 4715 2025-07-30T07:51:28.004557 image/jpeg 5043764 2025-07-30T07:51:27.361610 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia