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The Cricket Winter
Felice Holman
Ilustrated by Robyn Thomas
#UC0252
Hardcover, 91 pages; 2006 (1967)
$15.00
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A boy of nine is enormously wise and has a great deal to tell, if anyone at all would listen. And yet it is a fact that the ideas and opinions of many boys of nine are given very little notice or are entirely overlooked. Many adults who could learn from them, if they would, pass them by in a great hurry. It is not a perfect situation.
If the above quotation from The Cricket Winter doesn't capture your heart and compel you to immediately give this lovely little book to a young reader of your acquaintance, well, I don't know what to say. It's all about love, friendship, doing the right thing, and a magical relationship—via telegraph!—between an underappreciated boy and a lovelorn cricket. The illustrations are as memorable as the text. For ages 7-12.
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