Tag: crickets
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September 12, 2017
I’ve got a cricket in the basement. He sings, and I stand at the top of the basement stairs and listen. Sometimes as I listen I tear up a little. Why? Well, I was a kid who read (and reread and reread) George Selden’s The Cricket in Times Square. I loved Chester Cricket. I was…
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August 4, 2011
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August 2, 2011
I grew up with a Deluxe Golden Book version of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, illustrated by Sergio Rizzato. Rizzato’s detailed renderings of Pinocchio’s friend (and voice of reason) “The Talking Cricket,” fascinated me as a kid and engendered in me a lifelong love of crickets. All of this is a round-about way of saying that I…