| | | | | Old Cricket Written by Lisa Wheeler, Illustrated by Ponder Goembel A Richard Jackson Book Ages 4-8 Athenaeum, 2003 ISBN: 0-689-84510-3 |
***STARRED REVIEW*** Publisher’s Weekly, April 7, 2003 “The team responsible for Sailor Moo returns with a homespun trickster tale enhanced by sprightly humor and ace draftsmanship. . . . Smartly paced and skillfully drawn, this tale delivers a gentle comeuppance sure to please smart young bugs.” Awards and Honors: - Michigan Library Association; The Mitten Award, Best Book of the Year 2003
Shows and Exhibitions - The New York Public Library Exhibition of Illustrations from List:
One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing Dec. 2003 to Jan. 2004 - Society of Illustrators’ 46th Annual Exhibition: Editorial & Book Categories
Exhibited at the Society of Illustrators Ponder this: “To illustrate this book I wanted to show a cricket’sworld. A small dandelion to us must seem as large as a tree to a cricket. To draw a bug’s-eye view I took photographsat ground level, I gathered twigs, pebbles and leaves and captured a cricket and named her Mini.” — Ponder Goembel More about crickets: see Links & Things |