PICTURE BOOKS
Caudill, Rebecca

A Pocketful of Cricket

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Evaline Ness. In this gentle story of an Appalachian farm boy, six-year-old Jay is anxious about going to school for the first time. An understanding teacher makes Jay and his pet cricket the focus of show-and-tell, and Jay's anxieties are allayed. Caudill's quiet, understated text is beautifully complemented by Ness's three-color woodcuts in this 1965 Caldecott Honor Book.

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