Pub Date: May 22, 2012
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0750
Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 08 to 12
Physical Info: 0.60" H x 7.60" L x 5.10" W ( 0.30 lbs) 192 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Cats | Mice Hamsters Guinea Pigs etc | Classics
Series: Chester Cricket and His Friends
Description: Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse set off for the Old Meadow where Chester Cricket lives to save it from destruction by bulldozers. Accustomed to the city, they have a hard time finding places to stay and good things to eat; still they try to find a special plan to save the meadow. Illustrations.
Brief description: Garth Williams (1912-96) illustrated all seven of the Chester Cricket books and many other works, including Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web.
Review Quotes:
"A delightful, breezy story with lively humorous drawings . . . A warm, witty, whimsical text." --School Library Journal, Starred Review
"An enchanting book . . . funny, tender, exciting." --The Washington Post "Thrilling and funny . . . an outstanding book of the year." --The New York Times "There's enough gusto--especially in Tucker's reactions to rural life and to Harry's defection--to make this a not unworthy successor to Cricket if not its equal." --Kirkus Reviews "It isn't often that a reviewer can write that a sequel to a delicious book is every bit as delicious as the book it follows. . . . Tucker's Countryside is a perfect match in text and illustration to . . . The Cricket in Times Square." --Publishers Weekly "A charming . . . fantasy. Beautifully illustrated." --The Horn Book