Celebrate Cricket
For over 30 years, Cricket magazine has delighted children with outstanding fiction, poetry, art, and activities from top authors and artists like Lloyd Alexander, Jane Yolen, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Trina Schart Hyman. Now the best of this quintessential children’s magazine is compiled in a treasury of some of the best work to appear in its pages.

Cricket was launched in 1973 by Editor-in-Chief Marianne Carus, who was inspired by English poet Walter de la Mare’s belief that “only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enough for the young.” From its early years, when literary critic Clifton Fadiman was senior editor and Trina Schart Hyman was art director, Cricket has had a reputation for high quality and respect for young readers.

Marianne Carus’s mission attracted the best writing and artistic talent available, from Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lloyd Alexander, and Eric A. Kimmel to Sid and Paul Fleischman, Jane Yolen, and David Wiesner. These creative minds turned Cricket into the masterpiece that children love receiving in their mailboxes every month.

This delightful treasury of exceptional stories and poems, great art, and reminiscences is illustrated throughout in black and white and contains 20 pages of color reproductions of Cricket cover art. It makes a great gift for a fan of the children’s magazine Cricket, or for any child with a love of reading and art. As the Chicago Tribune said, Celebrate Cricket is “good reading for memories or first acquaintance.”