The comic, sometimes tragic side of life in the city is brought into vivid relief as Chester Cricket and his friends struggle to bring success to their human friends' nearly bankrupt newsstand.
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The comic, sometimes tragic side of life in the city is brought into vivid relief as Chester Cricket and his friends struggle to bring success to their human friends' nearly bankrupt newsstand.
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Seller's Description:
Fair. The item is very worn but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing (age related spots and browning). May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Seller's Description:
Williams, Garth. Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. No previous owner's name. Clean tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
I bought this as a Christmas for my young great-nephew and decided to read it myself. The this a wonderful tale about a cricket named Chester from Connecticut who gets stranded on a train and winds up in Grand Central Terminal in NYC. After being befriended by a cat and a mouse and eventually by a little boy who works with his parents selling newspapers in the terminal. Discovering his gift for playing music with his wings, he is trained by his friends to play a wide variety of music including classical pieces which he excels at and soon becomes a famous performer who draws the attention at the NY Times and crowds of people. Written with a magical touch and illustrated with line drawings, the book floats away in a compelling beauty of its own.
Rosanne
Aug 11, 2007
Beautiful
This classic, which should be hailed as an equal to E.B. White's Charlotte's Web, actually has much in common with that masterpiece. Not only are they both lovingly illustrated with line drawings by the incomparable Garth Williams, but they both revel in the simple beauty of little things in nature that often get taken for granted. The Cricket in Times Square places the beautiful song of a cricket in the grimy setting of a subway station, with sublime results. Chester Cricket, his friends Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat, and the Bellini family, whose station newsstand benefits from Chester's music, are wonderful characters with great charm. But it's more than an urban version of Charlotte's Web. Friendship, love, letting go, and the appreciation for beauty and simplicity - the scene in which the cricket's song stops traffic long enough for everybody to hear it has a heart-tugging, strange beauty that almost brought tears to my eyes - make this a classic in its own right. A great pick.