"This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells why crickets chirp and briefly explains their life cycle. Includes picture glossary"--Provided by publisher.
"A basic introduction to crickets, examining where they live, how they grow, what they eat, and the unique traits that help to define them, such as their ability to chirp or 'sing'"--Provided by publisher.
A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish; and includes a battery-operated sound of a cricket at the end of the book.
A little boy exchanges Morse code messages with the cricket that lives in his house and together they trap the rat that has been plaguing the boy's father and the cricket's friends.