The narration has the feel of early newsreels where the broadcaster described unknown phenomena in clipped, clinical language: ``A strange force passed through the wet ants. In this work, the hazards of nonconformity are clear. When the ant troops return, the two bad ants gladly rejoin their friends and head for the safety of home. Further mishaps include a heated stay in the toaster, a hazardous swirl in the garbage disposal and a zap in an electrical outlet. Their slumbers end when a giant scoop drops them into a sea of boiling brown coffee. Two greedy ants stay behind in the sugar bowl, eating their fill and then falling asleep. Accustomed 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. In this new book by Van Allsburg, twice a winner of the Caldecott Medal, the theme of an outsider's point-of-view (touched upon most recently in his The Stranger ) is expanded.
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