A Pocketful of Cricket
Rebecca Caudill. Henry Holt & Company, $18.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7524-3
Honoring its 40th anniversary, the Caldecott Honor book, A Pocketful of Cricket by Rebecca Caudill, illus. by Evaline Ness, is back, starring six-year-old Jay who meanders through the countryside and finds striped beans that ""felt cool-like morning,"" an arrowhead and a cricket that he brings home, among other treasures. Caudill's gentle sentences pair well with Ness's charming vintage scenes in mustard, red, avocado and black inks. .
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Reviewed on: 09/01/2004
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 48 pages - 978-0-8050-1200-2
Hardcover - 48 pages - 978-0-03-089752-8
Hardcover - 978-0-8050-7638-7
Paperback - 978-0-03-086619-7
Paperback - 48 pages - 978-0-8050-1275-0
