This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. My favorite books for kids are those that start out naturalistically and ...

George Selden (1929–1989) made an auspicious children’s book debut in 1960, when Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Cricket in Times Square. The story of a Connecticut cricket who gets swept onto ...

Chester Cricket gets trapped inside a picnic basket and transported from his home in Connecticut to the middle of New York City. Alone and lost, he meets up with Harry and Tucker, a cat and mouse that ...