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.