Cricket®

Teachers and students love CRICKET^® for its high-quality fiction and nonfiction. Here they find fantasy; folktales; poetry; articles on other countries, customs, and traditions; exciting true adventure stories; serialized longer selections; and science articles and experiments. Children get involved with craft projects, puzzles, and contests.

• Written by the best children's authors from the U.S. and abroad
• Monthly contests - best entries published in future issues
• Beautifully illustrated by well-known artists

"Each time a new issue arrives, we have eager children waiting to take out the latest copy."   - Tina L. Labis, Media Aide, Hillcrest Elementary School

MAY 2008 ISSUE CKT (May, 2008)

Features include: The Cactus Kid Meets his Match, Surya, the Dust Kicker, Favorite First Sentences, The Mothers of Mother's Day, Cinnanmon French Toast with Rasperry Maple Syrup, Before the Week's Through, Migrant Workers, The Star Shard, Albia and the Rebel Queen, Suit of Armor, Waiting for a White Knights, Daisies