Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg birdwatching guide I still read it every

I still read it every couple of years

GAVIN BROAD is the Principal Curator of Insects at the Natural History Museum

Pub Date: April 15

He studied at the Royal College of Art and worked for many years as a creative director at leading advertising agencies before becoming an author and illustrator

Two Bad Ants by Chris Van Allsburg birdwatching guide I still read it everyAccustomed to the orderly and uneventful life in the ant hole, all the ants enter the bizarre world of a kitchen in the search for sugar crystals for the queen. Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee. The three time Caldecott medalist tells the tale of two ants who decide to leave the safety of the others to venture