Cricket Bibliography

Non-Fiction Titles

Batulla, Barbara. Insects. Wilderness Album Series. New York: Hyperion Press Ltd/Sterling Publishing Co, Inc., 1990. 40 pp. Grades 2-6.
Hogner, Dorothy Childs. Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: Thomas Crowell Co., 1960. 61 pp.
Johnson, Sylvia. Chirping Insects. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 1976.
Simon, Seymour. Discovering What Crickets Do. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1973. 48 pp.
Wayland Publishing. Grasshoppers and Crickets. East Sussex, UK: Wayland Publishing Ltd., 1979. 30 pp.
Cole, Joanna. An Insect's Body. Photographs by Jerome Wexler and Raymond A. Mendez. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984. 48 pp.
Helfer, J.R. How to Know the Grasshoppers, Cockroaches and their Allies. Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown Co., 1963. 262 pp.
Hutchins, Ross E. Grasshoppers and Their Kin. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1972. 144 pp.
Porter, Keith. Discovering Grasshoppers and Crickets. New York: The Bookwright Press, 1986. 64 pp.
Watts, Barrie. Grasshoppers and Crickets - Keeping Minibeasts. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1991. 32 pp. Grades K-4.

Fiction and Poetry Titles

Bashful Bard. Cricket Gets the Monster: Fears and Feelings. Topeka, KS: Kenney Pubs. 28 pp. Grades PS-1.
Bashful Bard. Cricket Loses his Shadow. Topeka, KS: Kenney Pubs. 28 pp. Grades PS-1.
Carle, Eric. A Very Quiet Cricket. Illustrated by the author. New York: Philomel Books, 1990.
Caudill, Rebecca. A Pocketful of Cricket. Illustrated by Evaline Ness. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, 1964. 48 pp. Grades PS-3.
DuBois, William P. Bear Circus. Illustrated by the author. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
Fisher, Aileen. A Cricket in the Thicket. Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky. New York: Scribner, 1963.
George, Jean Craighead. All Upon a Stone. Illustrated by Don Bolognese. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1971.
Jiminy Cricket. New York: Walt Disney.
Kimmel, Eric A. Why Worry? Illustrated by Beth Cannon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979.
Levine, Gloria. Cricket in Times Square: A Study Guide. LRN Links, 1987. Grades 4-7.
Mizumura, Kazue. If I Were a Cricket... Illustrated by the author. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1973.
Selden, George. Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., 1981.
Selden, George. Cricket in Times Square. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. Grades 2-7.
Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square. New York: Ariel Books, 1960.
Stevens, Carla. Catch A Cricket. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1961.
Wood, Don and Audrey Wood. Quick as a Cricket. New York: Child's Play International, Inc., 1982.


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