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The cricket in Times Square

An updated version of the timeless children's classic featuring a business-savvy mouse, a kind alley cat, and a talented country cricket, featuring a new foreword and revisions by YA author Stacey Lee.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Selden, George, 1929-1989
Other Authors:	Williams, Garth (Illustrator), Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather) (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022.
Edition:	Revised and updated edition.
Subjects:	Crickets > Juvenile fiction. Mice > Juvenile fiction. Cats > Juvenile fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	An updated version of the timeless children's classic featuring a business-savvy mouse, a kind alley cat, and a talented country cricket, featuring a new foreword and revisions by YA author Stacey Lee.
Physical Description:	viii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:	037439041X 9780374390419
Author Notes:	George Selden Thompson was born in Hartford, Connecticut on May 14, 1929. He graduated from Yale University in 1951 and studied in Rome for a year on a Fulbright Scholarship. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 15 children's books and 2 plays under the name George Selden. His first book, The Cricket in Times Square, was published in 1960. It won a John Newbery Medal in 1961 and was made into an animated film in 1973. His other works include Tucker's Countryside, The Old Meadow, and Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse. He died from complications from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage on December 5, 1989 at the age of 60. (Bowker Author Biography)