朝が大好きな甲虫たち、りんごの家に住む虫、イエバエの掃除人、水たまりの前では蚊がボートを用意してこれに乗るのがルールだといってバッタ君の前に立ちふさがります。

道を行くバッタ君が出会うちょっとおかしな虫たちの話しが６つ収められています。これといった事件が起きるわけではなく、また明日目が覚めて歩き出したら今日の続きがあるのだと思わせる、淡々とした筆運びです。Arnold Lobelの他の作品と比べると少し地味です。

テープはこのシリーズの他の作品同様、聞きやすくて音声教材として使うのにも向いています。

A grasshopper has six different encounters on his journey through the 57 pages of this book. In the first encounter, "The Club," he meets “a group of beetles” that enthusiastically support/rally for “morning,” but become rather cross when they discover that the grasshopper loves “afternoon” and “night” too. In the second encounter, “A New House,” the grasshopper comes upon a “worm” that lives in an apple, which suddenly begins to “roll down the road” and smashes “into a hundred pieces.” The completely unfazed worm then crawls into “a new house.” In the third encounter, “The Sweeper,” the grasshopper runs into a “housefly” that is intent on sweeping “until the whole world is clean.” In the fourth encounter, “The Voyage,” the grasshopper comes in contact with a know-it-all “mosquito” that insists that the grasshopper use a “little boat” to cross a “puddle” because “it is a rule” and “rules are rules.” In the fifth encounter, “Always,” the grasshopper who does “something different every day of his life” meets “three butterflies” who “do the same thing at the same time each and every day.” In the final encounter, “At Evening,” the grasshopper comes across “two dragonflies” “zipping and zooming” around so rapidly that they “do not have time to look at” a variety to things, as opposed to the grasshopper who is “happy to be walking slowly down the road” taking in everything. A child who has learned to read at age four will be able to handle this at age five and six, but will most likely not comprehend the intended allegory.