The Very Quiet Cricket

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One day a tiny cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but there is not a sound. And so the quiet cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets the cricket with the cheery hello of its species—the hum of the bee, the whirr of the dragonfly, the screech of the cicada. Finally it matures and meets a female cricket who evokes from the quiet cricket "the most beautiful sound that she had ever heard!"
As with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider, this is a multi-sensory book; it is also multi-experiential. Children wiU see the bold, colorful, textured art that is Eric Carle's; they wiU hear or read the rhythmic, frequently alliterative text; and finally hear the quiet cricket's sweet song as they turn the last pages of the book.
This is a book to share. The repetitive text is easily learned, and the echoing answer to the cricket's search for his song can be the children's... Tovább

Fülszöveg

One day a tiny cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but there is not a sound. And so the quiet cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets the cricket with the cheery hello of its species—the hum of the bee, the whirr of the dragonfly, the screech of the cicada. Finally it matures and meets a female cricket who evokes from the quiet cricket "the most beautiful sound that she had ever heard!"
As with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider, this is a multi-sensory book; it is also multi-experiential. Children wiU see the bold, colorful, textured art that is Eric Carle's; they wiU hear or read the rhythmic, frequently alliterative text; and finally hear the quiet cricket's sweet song as they turn the last pages of the book.
This is a book to share. The repetitive text is easily learned, and the echoing answer to the cricket's search for his song can be the children's answer in a voice-and-response game. Listening to or reading this story, children will also learn about the various animals the cricket meets. All readers, even the smallest, will delight in the surprise at the end ofthe book, and in knowing that even the lowliest creature will find its voice, as silent or joyous as that may be.
A Multi-sensory Book

The much-loved artist Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, New York, and went with his family to live in Germany while still a child. He studied art and design there as a young man. While pursuing a career in commercial art in the United States, Mr. Carle was asked to illustrate a picture-book story and was soon inspired to create books of his own, one of the first of which was The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Mr. Carle believes learning should be a joyful and thoughtful experience. The Caterpillar teaches the days of the week, counting, and metamorphosis. "But ultimately the story is about hope: every living thing wiU grow up, be beautiful, and unfold its talent." The tactile The Very Busy Spider is "about barnyard animals and sounds, and how a spider builds a web. But the story's true emotional impact reaches deeper": it is about useful work and its reward. In The Very Quiet Cricket Mr. Carle chooses a lowly insect as the hero, but beyond the simple story of a cricket finding his voice, it is a story "about love and the survival of all living things—crickets and humankind."
Mr. Carle's fascination with the animal world was inspired by his father. When the artist was a young boy, the two would take walks through the meadows and woods and his father would point out the small wonders of nature. Eric Carle remembers these times fondly, and through his books he hopes to honor his father and pass on some of the wonder and happiness of his childhood to his readers. Vissza