Review by Booklist Review
Gr. 2^-3, younger for reading aloud. This well-rounded introduction moves from crickets chirping on a summer evening to a look at the purpose of the chirping sound, who makes it, and how it is made; in fact, children will learn a great deal about the anatomy, life cycle, habits, and habitats of crickets from the text and the visually striking and educationally sound artwork.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2ÄA general introduction to the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of this insect. The text is clear and simple but the sentences are occasionally choppy. The full-page, rainbow-hued watercolors are accurately rendered and do a good job of representing the text. Readers' curiosity is sure to be piqued by the inclusion of interesting facts (a cricket's chirping can be used to determine the temperature outside). A final section offers suggestions for making a model, jumping like a cricket, and playing a "Do You Know?" game. An attractive title that will enhance nature collections.ÄMichele Snyder, Chappaqua Public Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
This clearly written text gives a physical description of crickets and information about where they live, how and when they make their familiar chirping sound, and how nymphs grow into adult crickets. The illustrations are detailed and often labeled. Suggestions are provided for simple but interesting activities such as how to re-create the cricket's chirp using stiff paper and a nail file. From HORN BOOK Fall 1998, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
To human listeners, cricket songs announce that summer can't last forever; their evening chirps forecast falling leaves, cooler temperatures, and the start of school in the not-so-distant future. But for crickets, chirping is the mating song of male crickets, rubbing their front wings together, which females ``hear'' through membranes on their knees. These familiar insects seem a natural subject for the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series; Berger (How Life Began, 1991, etc.) describes their life cycles and their basic anatomy in an accessible, lively way. Lloyd's pictures are large and colorful; captions point out the knee ears and the sound-producing parts of the wings. Easy projects are included, as is a tidy formula for figuring out the temperature from the number of cricket chirps per minute. (Picture book/nonfiction. 5-9)
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