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A Pocketful of Cricket by Rebecca Caudill
3.0
This is written by Rebecca Caudill who has a children’s literature award named after her. I thought the story was thoughtful and sweet. It is not action packed like today’s stories and I kinda like that. The kids are used to more going on. I found they didn’t care about a cricket so much.
The art is by someone else and it did nothing for me. It was just blocks of gold color with a few details thrown in. It reminds me a lot of ‘Finders Keepers’. I hope this trend is about over after this book.
The kids were bored by this book. The book is a little long and the nephew asked at one point if we could just read another story. He gave it 1 stars. The niece gave this 1. I thought the story was nice myself. Just a different pacing. I think that is what age gives me. I have patience for a story and I am glad about that.
One part I love is the teacher in this story. The boy brings the cricket to school because he wants to be with it and the cricket starts singing in his pocket. When the teacher asks him to take it outside and he refuses her several times, instead of showing her power, she changes gears and asks him to bring the cricket up for show and tell. She was the wonder of the story. I want to be like her too.
The art is by someone else and it did nothing for me. It was just blocks of gold color with a few details thrown in. It reminds me a lot of ‘Finders Keepers’. I hope this trend is about over after this book.
The kids were bored by this book. The book is a little long and the nephew asked at one point if we could just read another story. He gave it 1 stars. The niece gave this 1. I thought the story was nice myself. Just a different pacing. I think that is what age gives me. I have patience for a story and I am glad about that.
One part I love is the teacher in this story. The boy brings the cricket to school because he wants to be with it and the cricket starts singing in his pocket. When the teacher asks him to take it outside and he refuses her several times, instead of showing her power, she changes gears and asks him to bring the cricket up for show and tell. She was the wonder of the story. I want to be like her too.