Summary
Help! Help!` calls the big black ant when the little black ant falls into the water. But the only answers it gets arecrokk`,isspiss`,aaaanh`,cheek`,miyawwwwn` andwoaw`. Who will save the baby? Unusual sounds add excitement to a familiar pattern in this folktale-based story. The sometimes onomatopoeic, sometimes alliterative, sometimes rhyming words that add flavour to the story stretch the concept of bilingual translation. The result is a parallel set of onomatopoeic, alliterative or rhyming words in another language that enrich the child`s vocabulary and approach to language.