title: The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
author: William Plomer
description: William Plomer was a South African novelist, literary editor, and poet.<br><br>Alan Aldridge is the British artist whose airbrush illustrations of fantasy scenes defined the graphic style of the sixties. Working with some of the greatest artists of his generation, including the Beatles and Andy Warhol, Aldridge created groundbreaking posters, book illustrations, and album covers. His debut children&#8217;s book, THE BUTTERFLY BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST, won the prestigious Whitbread Children&#8217;s Book Award.
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  The Butterfly's Ball
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER ONE. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER TWO. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # The Butterfly's Ball
  
  
  ### R.M. Ballantyne
  
  
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  [CHAPTER ONE. THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST.
  
  
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  The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, by R.M. Ballantyne.
  
  
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  This one of the half-dozen or so little books that Ballantyne wrote for young
  children. Many of these, and certainly the earlier ones, were written under
  the pseudonym of Comus, but this one went out under his own name, perhaps
  because by the time it was published in 1874 his own name had become much more
  celebrated than that of his pseudonym.
  
  It was written for very young children, and very