| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Genesis / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Let's Celebrate Cricket / Marianne Carus -- Letter -- Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp -- Meet Your Author / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Clifton Fadiman and the Beginnings of Cricket / Anne Fadiman -- Old Cricket's Family Album -- Hungry Reader -- Gift from Gertrude Stein / Lloyd Alexander -- I'm Not Sure If I'm Making This Up, But ... / John Grandits; Trina Schart Hyman -- Chorus of Crickets / Jan Adkins -- Great Granddad Stan / William Saroyan -- In the Beginning / Marcia Leonard -- Portrait of the Editor as a Young Cricket / Charnan Simon -- Birth of Cricket / Eleanor Cameron -- Love to Everybuggy / Tomie dePaola -- McBroom Meets Cricket -- McBroom the Rainmaker / Sid Fleischman -- Cricket Is 30! Congratulations! -- Fish for Finn / Eve Bunting -- How Did Mary Poppins Find Me? / P.L. Travers -- Hike in New York City / Sam Levenson -- Dreadful Consequences of Absent-Mindedness / Michael Ende -- Cricket Opens a Door -- Buildings that Scrape the Sky / James Cross Giblin -- Portfolio of Cricket Covers -- "Do Anything You Want to Do" / David Wiesner -- Old Cricket and the Hanukkah Goblins / Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins / Eric A. Kimmel -- Sendak Sent Me to Cricket / Jean Gralley -- Quiet Revolution -- Meet Your Artist / Marylin Hafner -- My Life with Cricket -- Day I Rescued Albert Einstein's Compass / Shulamith Levey Oppenheim -- Cricket Crosses the Atlantic / Ann Thwaite -- Grandma, Felix, and Biscuit the Hamster! / Victor Ambrus -- Happy Birthday, Dear Cricket! / Shirley Hughes -- Happy 30th Birthday, Cricket! / Fritz Wegner -- Message for Cricket -- Song for Cricket -- Day Grandfather Tickled a Tiger / Ruskin Bond -- Cat Who Became a Poet / Margaret Mahy -- Cats / Gina Ruck-Pauquet -- Tosh / James Herriot -- Cub / Walter Dean Myers -- Owl O'Clock / Paul Fleischman -- Dear Marianne / Jim Arnosky -- Literary Ticket / Jane Yolen -- My Love Affair with Reading / Glenn Robert Gray -- Day Mother Sold the Family Swords / Shizuko Obo -- Lair of the Demon King / Jill Paton Walsh -- Innkeeper's Boy / Diane Brooks Pleninger -- Dream Maker / Jane Yolen -- Drum / Hooshang Moradi Kermani -- Nabil Means Wisdom / Garrett Bodel -- Five Words / Pnina Kass -- Happy 30th Birthday, Cricket! / X.J. Kennedy; Barbara Elleman; Paul Fleischman; Julia Cunningham; Emanuel di Pasquale. |
| Summary |
A treasury of stories, poems, and illustrations from Cricket, along with reminiscences about the magazine and color reproductions of Cricket cover art. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
| Subject |
Children's literature, American.
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Children's literature, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Carus, Marianne.
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| Added Title |
Cricket, the magazine for children.
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| ISBN |
0812626958 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780812626957 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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