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Frederick The Ant

A hand bound children’s poetry book written and illustrated by Bert Weir.

Published in 2003 by Joyful Loons Publishing, RR#1, S12, C45, Parry Sound, ON  P2A 2W7.

34 pages, 17 graphite illustrations. Font – Lucida Sans

ISBN# 0-9688388-5-5

 
Frederick The Ant is the story of a young ant who wonders what the rest of the world is like. One day he goes off on a journey of exploration and has many adventures that help him develop new survival skills.

Excerpt from ‘Frederick The Ant ’

Then Frederick’s eyes
focus on the dark
moving shape
of a black
bird
The bird suddenly
swoops up
grabs a flying
insect
turns
drops down
over the trees
flies low
across the field
over a fence
to bulrushes at
the ponds edge

It spreads its wings
slows to a stop
grabs a stem
hangs on
then looks into
the nest
crunches the insect

and fills
two open squeaking
mouths
Frederick feels
the gentleness
of the bird
as it feeds it’s
young
then slowly
cold terror
creeps through
his body
The birds were eating
insects
and he is an
insect
He must hide
from flying
things

Hurry
He turns
slips off the seed head
Down  down
down
he falls
landing on a
carpet

of soft moss
He rolls over
and
runs
He does not know
where
Over roots
around stones
under leaves
through
a puddle
out onto warm
sand
back into the
shadows
by a damp rotting
log
and there he
stops

Lying still
resting
his fear gone
Frederick knows
flying things are
dangerous

Beware

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