Spider-Man writer and artist ERIK LARSEN concludes his epic ANT/SPAWN/SAVAGE DRAGON crossover in suitably epic fashion! The trio travels to New Mexico to take on the menace Alzayah Stone, a man using his mutant ability to transform zealots and social misfits seeking power into deadly foes! ANT comes with our highest possible recommendation.

Sam’s ordinary day takes a turn for the extraordinary when a slice of jam-covered toast lands on top of him. His friend Charlie rushes to help, but the temptation of the sweet jam proves too much to resist! In the midst of their jammy predicament, the toast is suddenly snatched away. Determined to find more, Charlie and Sam venture into the house of the big people. Their adventure leads them to George, who is engrossed in playing with his train set. Spotting a tempting sweet in one of the carriages, Charlie and Sam clamber aboard, only to find themselves whisked away as the train chugs into motion, landing them in a very sticky situation indeed. Things escalate when Max the dog, eyeing the sweet, inadvertently gets Charlie stuck to it and pops them both into his mouth. Sam watches in dismay as his best friend vanishes, realizing he must act quickly to rescue Charlie from an unintentional trip down Max’s gullet.

A story about Ant and Bee's ride on Dog's back contains words in red for each letter of the alphabet.

For those fascinated by the abstract universe of mathematics, David Gale's columns in "The Mathematical Intelligencer" have been a prime source of entertainment, and here his columns are collected for the first time in book form. Encouraged by the magazine's editor, Sheldon Axler, to write on whatever pleased him, Gale ranged far and wide across the field of mathematics, frequently returning to favorite themes: triangles, tilings, games and paradoxes, as well as the particular automaton that gives this collection its title, the "automatic ant." Suitable for everyone having some familiarity with mathematical ideas.

An Ant Measured an Ant—Five Feet Six Inches is a story of two genius ants that can read and speak human language, who are well versed in all the branches of human knowledge. By virtue of the law of accident, the author and the ants run into each other and develop a lasting friendship. In the course of their interactions, the ants tell him how, by a twist of fate, they got their potential back that the ant species had lost in the dark of history. They turned the act of fate into a conscious act. In their own words, ‘what we are today is the consequential effect of the activated buffered code aided by the consequential effect of our own conscious efforts. It’s not the brain size or mass ratio but how you use your intelligence and what role nature has played in determining your potentials or putting a buffer between you and your potential at a later date, owing to non-use or misuse. This, the ants claim, will become the very cause of the fall of mankind. The known history of ants thus will become the future of mankind. The author is convinced that the very causes that buffered ants’ potentials once upon a time will block human potentials too, unless, of course, humans realize this predicament in the offing before it is too late. This novel, in a sense, is a wake-up call.

Backyard Books: Are You an Ant? by Judy Allen with illustrations by Tudor Humphries will give children who love to track ants an inside look at the everyday life of this fascinating insect, as they explore the similarities and differences to themselves.

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