The Cricket in Times Square

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The Cricket in Times Square
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Series: Adventure & Fantasy, Adventure
Genres: Chapter Books, Juvenile Fiction
Tags: Ages 5-8, Ages 8-12, Award Winners
ASIN: 0312380038
ISBN: 0312380038

Chester Cricket accidentally leaves his quiet country life (in a picnic basket) and ends up in busy New York City where he makes unexpected friends and delights others with his unusual musical talent. The charming Garth Williams illustrations make this book even more delightful.

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About the Book

Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he’d seen it all. But he’s never met a cricket before, which really isn’t surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City―the Times Square subway station.

Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He’d be there still if he hadn’t followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone’s picnic basket.

Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. And he could not have found two better guides―and friends―than Tucker and Harry.

The trio have many adventures―from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire.

Chester makes a third friend, too. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents’ newsstand.

He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one―not even Chester himself―realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two.

The Cricket in Times Square is a 1961 Newbery Honor Book.

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