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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.

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 Citythe 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 guidesand friendsthan Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventuresfrom 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 dust

The Cricket in Times Square

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    A Hardback by George Selden, Garth Williams, Stacey Lee

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9780374390419, 978-0374390419
      ISBN10: 037439041X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      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 Citythe 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 guidesand friendsthan Tucker and Harry. The trio have many adventuresfrom 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 dust

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