Cricket®

A Cricket Magazine Group magazine

Language Arts for grades 5-9

Librarians, teachers, and students love CRICKET^® for its high-quality fiction and nonfiction. CRICKET features poetry, story, art, and photography contests. With its lively bug characters having adventures in the margins, explaining difficult words, and offering funny commentary on the text, CRICKET's creativity will spur readers to express themselves in new ways.

• 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

Cricket February 2012 (Feb, 2012)

Features include: Leaping Lena, Old Otis, and Me; Cats; Change; X-Clamation Point!; Chura and Marwe; Kiss Me Cookies; I, Like You; The Red String; A Boy Called Everest; Grace's Whiskers.