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The Very Quiet Cricket Spiral-Bound | June 1, 2021

Eric Carle

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Eric Carle's classic story of finding your "voice" is newly joining the premier reader line, Step into Reading!

One day, a little cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. But the little cricket cannot make a sound. The cricket meets many insects, but it isn't until he meets a beautiful female cricket that he can finally chirp "hello!"

Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics; for children who are ready to read on their own.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0593432320
Item Weight: 0.2 lbs
Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.1 x 9.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 10,001 to 50,000 ratings
Born in the United States, Eric Carle was taken as a six-year-old child by his parents back to their native country, Germany. Later, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Academy of Applied Arts) in Stuttgart, and returned to New York in his early twenties as a graphic designer and artist. His many picture books are now known and loved by children around the world.
 
In 2002, Eric and his late wife, Barbara, opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where the works of distinguished picture book artists, nationally and internationally acclaimed, are exhibited in three spacious galleries.

Eric Carle passed away in 2021, at the age of 91.