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91 pp.
| Eerdmans
| September, 2006
|
TradeISBN 0-8028-5289-0$15.00 New ed. (1967, Norton)
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Robyn Thomas.
Simms is a lonely boy who learns how to communicate with a cricket. This deceptively simple story involves a complex moral issue: should the cricket help kill a rat troubling the other creatures living beneath the boy's house? In this newly illustrated edition, Thomas's gentle stippled art nicely echoes the story's quiet style.