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Wheeler, Lisa

Old Cricket

32 pp. | Atheneum/Jackson | May, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-689-84510-3 $$16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Ponder Goembel. Old Cricket evades his wife's and his neighbors' requests to help prepare for winter by claiming various ailments such as a creak in the knee and a crick in the neck. But when hungry Old Crow comes caw-cawing to eat him for lunch, Old Cricket hightails it toward home with a real crack, crick, and creak and helps his wife without complaint. Expressive illustrations energize the critters in this rollicking alliterative tale.
Reviewer: Pamela McCuen

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