Chester Cricket series by George Selden (Author) & Garth Williams (Illustrator) (Books 2,3,5,6,7)
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Overview: George Selden Thompson was an American author, who wrote under the pseudonym Terry Andrews. He is best known for his 1961 book The Cricket in Times Square, which received a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963 and a Newbery Honor.Garth Montgomery Williams was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children’s books. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children’s literature.
Genre: Children, Fiction
Tucker’s Countryside (Chester Cricket 2)
Chester Cricket needs help. That’s the message John Robin carries into the Times Square subway station where Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse live. Quickly, Chester’s good friends set off on the long, hard journey to the Old Meadow, where all is not well. Houses are creeping closer. Bulldozers and construction are everywhere. It looks like Chester and his friends’ home will be ruined and the children of the town won’t have a place to play. Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse are used to the city life. Now in the country, they need to find a place to stay and good things to eat. And most of all they must think of a plan to help their friends.
Harry Cat’s Pet Puppy (Chester Cricket 3)
"Get that thing out of here!" Tucker shouted.Tucker Mouse was waiting impatiently in the drainpipe in the Times Square subway station where he and his friend, Harry Cat, made their home. And when Harry finally came home, he was dragging with him what looked like a dirty dish mop. It was a puppy."It’s staying for supper?" asked Tucker incredulously.Huppy was to stay a good deal longer than that, and Tucker and Harry were kept busy seeing to the needs of their new pet. As their fondness for Huppy grew, so did the dog, until the day came when he no longer fitted into the drainpipe. A new home had to be found for him-but where? Surely not with Max, leader of the Bryant Park pack of strays! If only Miss Catherine, the high-toned Siamese cat of Mr. Smedley, the music teacher, could be persuaded to accept an addition to the family . ..
Chester Cricket’s New Home (Chester Cricket 5)
Crash! One minute Chester Cricket is calmly sifting inside his stump house. The next thing he knows, the roof is collapsing upon him! Left without a home, Chester is forced to move in with one neighbor after another in Tucker’s Countryside. Nothing works out quite right–John Robin throws loud all-night parties, Henry and Emily Chipmunk are too tidy, and Donald Dragonfly’s twig is much too small for both of them. Even his good pal Walter Water Snake can’t help joking about Chester’s predicament. All of his friends have found a happy home. Will Chester ever find a place to call his own?
Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse (Chester Cricket 6)
Meet Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse. No one would ever dream that a cat and mouse could become friends, but that doesn’t stop Harry and Tucker. All they have is each other to depend on. Together they begin an exciting adventure throughout New York, searching for a home they can call their own. But the two friends run into some troublesome times in their journey around town. Is all hope lost? Where will they turn to next?
The Old Meadow (Chester Cricket 7)
Cricket returns in another tale about his meadow home in Connecticut. Alhough this follows Chester Cricket’s New Home (1983), it has more in common with the earlier Tucker’s Countryside (1969, both Farrar). In that story the meadow creatures managed, with the help of the city-wise cat and mouse team, to save their land from developers. Now they must, on their own, save an old curmudgeon, the only human inhabitant of the Old Meadow. Abner Budd and his dilapidated home are considered an eyesore, and since the meadow is the historical center of Hedley, the Town Council wants him gone. All of the meadow creatures from the previous books have returned, with the addition of Ashley Mockingbird and Dubber, Abner’s dog, the epitome of slavish devotion even when ignored or supplanted in his owner’s affections. There is a lot crammed into this story, and some of the subplots get in the way. But there are also some wonderful, highly-charged scenes, including the climax, in which Abner’s importance to the Meadow is fully demonstrated. As always, Williams’ illustrations become inseparable from the story. A sure-fire hit with fans of the series.
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