This book is about a little girl who is interested in insects on the whole, but her favorite is the grasshopper. She finds a baby grasshopper in a field near her home and proceeds to raise it herself. Her big brother was an influence on her because he was very interested in insects and raised a whole box of insects (seven kinds) and called it The House of the Seven Insects . Being city children, insects were fascinating to them. The little girl also raised caterpillars and watched them develop through their various stages of growth; the best part being the emergence of the caterpillar from the chrysalis or the moth from the cocoon.