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Holman, Felice

The Cricket Winter

91 pp. | Eerdmans | September, 2006 | Trade ISBN 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.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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