Crickets in Times Square

Author: George Selden
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The sincere friendship between a cricket, a mouse, and a cat is enough to warm this cold world. Anyone who has read this book, whether a child or an adult, will never forget the cricket named Chester, remembering its loud and rhythmically endless chirping. The cricket Chester never thought of leaving the grassland in the countryside of Connecticut, but he jumped into a picnic basket out of greed and was taken to New York City—the bustling Times Square subway station. In the cold and indifferent New York, the lucky Chester met the clever and slightly mercenary mouse Tucker and the loyal and simple-minded cat Henry, and also met his loving owner—a boy named Mario. The cricket Chester repaid his friends' sincere friendship with his remarkable musical talent, helped Mario's family out of their predicament, and himself became a musician who shocked the entire New York City!