Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride: 4 - Brossura

Selden, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374411816 ISBN 13: 9780374411817

Casa editrice: Square Fish, 2001

Riassunto

Chester the Cricket, homesick for his country home in Connecticut, is befriended by Lulu, a kind and understanding pigeon, who puts his new companion on his back and sets to the skies for a grand tour of his new home in New York City. Reprint.

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L'autore

George Selden (1929-1989) was the author of A Cricket in Times Square, winner of the 1961 Newbery Honor and a timeless children's classic. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Selden received his B.A. from Yale, where he was a member of the Elizabethan Club and contributed to the literary magazine. He spent three summer sessions at Columbia University and, after college, studied for a year in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship.

People often asked Selden how he got the idea for The Cricket in Times Square. "One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in the Times Square subway station. The story formed in my mind within minutes. An author is very thankful for minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequently." The popularCricket series grew to seven titles, including Tucker's Countryside andThe Old Meadow. In 1973, The Cricket in Times Square was made into an animated film. Selden wrote more than fifteen books, as well as two plays. His storytelling blends the marvelous with the commonplace realities of life, and it was essential to him that his animal characters display true emotions and feelings.

Selden lived in New York City until his death in December 1989. He enjoyed music, archaeology, and J.R.R. Tolkien. His editor, Stephen Roxburgh, said, "Chester Cricket, Harry Cat, Tucker Mouse, and their friends celebrate the triumph of innocence and camaraderie over cynicism and selfishness. George Selden is gone, but his voice lives on in Chester Cricket's song."

Garth Williams illustrated all seven of the Chester Cricket books and many other distinguished works, includingStuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Product Description

Continuing the adventures in "The Cricket in Times Square", Chester is homesick for Connecticut, and meets Lulu, a pigeon who takes Chester on a zooming flight over the city. Illustrations.

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• Editore: Square Fish
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0374411816
• ISBN 13: 9780374411817
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64
• Disegnatore: Williams Garth