The Cricket in Times Square
Revised and Updated Edition
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Vikas Adam
About this listen
An updated version of The Cricket in Times Square, the timeless children's classic featuring a business-savvy mouse, a kind alley cat, and a talented country cricket, featuring a new afterword and revisions by YA author Stacey Lee.
Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City—the Times Square subway station.
Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. And he could not have found two better guides—and friends—than Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventures—from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire.
Chester makes a third friend, too. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents' newsstand. He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one—not even Chester himself—realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
©1960 George Selden (P)2022 Macmillan AudioCritic Reviews
“The story of a musical cricket and his friends, a mouse and a cat of real character, who took up their abode in a Times Square newsstand...Most appealing whimsy with beautiful illustrations by Garth Williams.”—Starred, School Library Journal
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- Sophie Masson
- 05-10-2022
Gorgeous classic, beautifully narrated
This book, in its print form, was one of our children's favourites--and ours! To find it again in such a perfect audio production has been a great delight, and was loved by the newest generation in the family, discovering it for the first time, as for those who already knew and loved it. All the characters are perfectly voiced and the narration is wonderful generally. Made for several happy hours on a long drive! Highly recommended.
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