The Very Quiet Cricket
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This was charming, but almost every book in the library was broken so we couldn't hear the cricket sounds at the end. It was worth it though to look through a bazillion so we could find one that worked.
Lovely little story, lovely little moral, lovely, lovely, lovely.
Lovely little story, lovely little moral, lovely, lovely, lovely.
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Here is another book about an animal or bug that has a problem and has to over come it. This cricket can't make any noise with his legs, or flip over. He asks for help from an elder cricket, who tries to teach him how, and there is a series of dangers he tries to escape from and final when he is about to be stepped on, he does a flip and makes his legs sing.
1. Ask students to write what it would be like if they couldn't talk, how would they feel and how would that affect their lives.
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1. Ask students to write what it would be like if they couldn't talk, how would they feel and how would that affect their lives.
2....more
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I love Eric Carle. His books are simple, with big pictures and children love them.
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"not a sound" was one of my little boys first phrases to repeat. this book is very sweet. we own it.
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I have the BEST memories of reading this book... not as a child, but as a 16 year old shelver hiding from the mean librarian in the children's section making my best friend laugh by making the cricket chirp. Now that I'm a librarian, these are the kind of memories that always crack a big grin!
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A beautiful story about a cricket who is impatient to grow up. Of course, at the end of the book he learns to enjoy the quiet and then how to chirp.
Katherine: That cricket was just one year old, and then two years old, and then three years old, and then 4 years old just like me.
Katherine: That cricket was just one year old, and then two years old, and then three years old, and then 4 years old just like me.
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Read in September, 2008
My kids loved this book. On every page they would say with me; "But nothing happened. Not a sound". They loved the cricket noises at the end.
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This is one of the magical books of childhood. It brings the child in touch with the existence of crickets and the beautiful part of nature they are.
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ages 2+
Another of Eric Carles book/toy's. The cricket tries and tries to make a cricket sound until the last page wherein he succeeds and can be heard chirp, chirping (battery seems to oddly NEVER wear out - but the volume is quiet enough to be not at all irritating).
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Read in July, 2008
Still loving the repetition and the twinkle in my son's eye and the smile, when he knows the words coming next!
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I was "tidying" my daughters bedroom and came across this book today... I'd forgotten all about it - what a little gem... every page is wonderfully drawn...and that wonderful chirping cricket at the end... how marvellous.
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