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.”

*MORE STARRED REVIEWS* Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2003 School Library Journal, May, 2003 More Reviews “...And The Bugs,” New York Times Book Review, 2003 Listed School Library Journal; SLJ’s Best Books 2003 The New York Public Library; Children’s Books 2003, One Hundred Titles for Reading & Sharing Bank Street College of Education; The Best Children’s Books of the Year 2003, 2004 Edition		Exhibited at the New York Public Library (see above)

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’s world. A small dandelion to us must seem
as large as a tree to a cricket. To draw a bug’s-eye view I took photographs at ground level,
I gathered twigs, pebbles and leaves and captured a cricket and named her Mini.”
— Ponder Goembel

More about crickets: see Links & Things