crickets

Photographs and text provide an introduction to crickets, explaining what they look like, how they grow, what they eat, and where they live, and discussing their enemies and relationship to people.

Provides information on the identification, life cycle, and habitats of grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids, as well as on how to collect and care for them as pets.

Provides instructions for finding, collecting, and keeping crickets and suggests how to delve into the secret lives of these chirping neighbors.

Discusses crickets and grasshoppers, including katydids and locusts, all insects that are known for their sounds and their hopping abilities.

Simple text and photographs describe the physical characteristics and habits of crickets.

Nostalgic for his country home, Chester Cricket braves the busy city streets in search of a tree and finds a new friend in the process.

Describes the physical characteristics and abilities of crickets and grasshoppers, discusses the differences among species of orthopterans, explains why the insects sing, and looks at the life cycle and defensive skills of orthopterans. Includes color photographs.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, and life cycle of crickets and grasshoppers. Includes related activities.

Retells a Chinese folktale in which a clever and kindly cricket is responsible for designing the tower buildings for Beijing's "Forbidden City.".

Old Cricket doesn't feel like helping his wife and neighbors to prepare for winter and so he pretends to have all sorts of ailments that require the doctor's care, but hungry Old Crow has other ideas.