crickets

Simple text and color photos present a look at crickets, covering their physical characteristics, their predators, the way they move, and how they sing.

With the help of a mouse and a cat, a musical cricket improves business at the newsstand run by Mario and his family.

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.

When two rather stout ladies sit on Chester Cricket's home in the Old Meadow, the worm-eaten stump collapses and Chester, aided by his friends, is forced to look for a new home.

Examines the common house cricket and shows why its body is ideally suited for survival.

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.

Alan Lee tries to catch the singing cricket in his mother's office.

When a mysterious animal drinks up all sound and leaves the earth frozen and cold, a hidden cricket ushers in the return of spring.

Describes how chirping insects such as crickets, katydids, and grasshoppers produce their songs and use them to send messages to other members of their species.

Text and photographs describe the life cycle, behavior, and natural habitat of crickets.