by George Selden, Garth Williams
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleI absolutely loved this book. It is an adorably entertaining read.While reading it, I had vague recollections of having read it before, but nothing concrete. I think I read it in elementary school, but I don't remember much of it. I am so glad I read i...
Absolutely love the book. I recommend for all children.
It would be four stars if not for the stereotyped Sai Fong.
A simple, charming story. Chester Cricket after becoming trapped beneath roast beef sandwiches in a picnic basket finds himself stranded in the station below Times Square. This is where Mario Belini, a struggling newspaper vendor's son, finds and adopts him. Out of gratitude and after an unfortunate...
The story was good, and the illustrations were nice; still, this book was somewhat unremarkable. I get that it was written for kids, but my copy says the book was written at a sixth grade reading level. Well, I can tell you right now that my sixth grade classmates would have found a story like thi...
What’s a cricket doing in Times Square? Chester soon finds himself surrounded by friends, both animal (a mouse and a cat) and human (a boy and his parents who own the newsstand where Chester finds himself). Chester discovers he is an extraordinary musician and develops quite a following in New York,...
I remember arriving, at the age of 8, in the United States and not being able to understand a single world. Then I don't know how one day I just started speaking and understanding. And most of all I started reading in english! This is one of the first books I have read in english, and I'm really att...
I adored this book growing up and seeing it on one of my friend's lists made me want to revisit it again.
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