Interest Level. Grades P-3. Reading Level. Guided Reading: K Lexile: AD490L Accelerated Reader Level: 3.0
Silver Medal Recipient, City of Milano, Italy, 1989
Redbook Magazine’s Top Ten Picture Books of the Year, 1990
Parenting Magazine’s California Children’s Book + Video Awards, winner of Picture Book Category, 1990
Buckeye Children’s Book Award, Ohio Council of the International Reading Association, Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Educational Library Media Association, Ohio Library Association, State Library of Ohio, 1993
ABA Children’s Books Mean Business Title, 1998

Insect

Board book

Genre
Picture books for children
Tone
Feel-good
Illustration
Big and bold
Colorful
Inventive
Subject
Animal communication
Animal sounds
Crickets (Insects)
Insect sounds
Insects
Repetition in stories
Silence and silent things

#1468 in our old book database. Rated: Indifferent

Eric Carle once again employs too much repetition. Here a cricket meets nine different insects but is frustrated again and again that he cannot reply to their greetings with a chirp. It's only when he gets horny that he finally finds his song, which is a bit ick.

Side note: This book has an electronic component, but the battery in our copy has died after twenty years and there doesn't seem to be any way to replace it even if we wanted to. ( )