The Cricket in Times Square

Children's Books

George Selden

Garth, Williams

Literature & Fiction

Puffin Books

Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse try to find a permanent home for a young stray puppy they have befriended. A sequel toTucker's Countryside, from George Selden and illustrator Garth Williams.

Harry Cat's Pet Puppy

Teen & Young Adult

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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.

Tucker's Countryside

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City―the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist in the city, he wants to look around. And he could not have found two better guides―and friends―than Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventures―from taking in the sights and sounds of Broadway to escaping a smoky fire. Chester makes a third friend, too. It is a boy, Mario, who rescues Chester from a dusty corner of the subway station and brings him to live in the safety of his parents' newsstand. He hopes at first to keep Chester as a pet, but Mario soon understands that the cricket is more than that. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one―not even Chester himself―realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two. Spanish language edition.

Un Grillo En Time Square: En Español (The Cricket in Times Square, Spanish Edition)

Animals

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

When people take too many shells and stones from Crescent Beach, a lobster and his underwater friends decide to retaliate.

Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange

Avon/Books

The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat

Yearling

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?

Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse

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?

Chester Cricket's New Home

Chester Cricket--the famous cricket in Times Square--is homesick. When his friend Mario takes him to a sky show at the Planetarium, Chester realizes how much he misses seeing real stars at night. Happily, he finds his way out of the subway into Times Square, where he meets a new friend, Lulu Pigeon. Lulu takes him on a trip beyond his wildest dreams. From Central Park to the top of the Empire State Building, from the Statue of Liberty and back to Times Square, Chester sees Manhattan in style--and even finds a little bit of country in the city!

Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride (Chester Cricket)

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The Cricket in Times Square

Harry Cat's Pet Puppy

Tucker's Countryside

Un Grillo En Time Square: En Español (The Cricket in Times Square, Spanish Edition)

Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange

Tucker's Countryside

The Cricket in Times Square

Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse

Chester Cricket's New Home

Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride (Chester Cricket)