Cricket is an illustrated literary magazine for children published in the United States, founded in September, 1973, by Marianne Carus, whose intent was to create "The New Yorker for children." Marianne Carus still serves as the magazine's editor-in-chief. Literature is literally an acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted each year on the magazines anniversary. ... Editor has four major senses: a person who obtains or improves material for a publication; a film editor, a person responsible for the flow of a motion picture or television program from scene to scene a sound editor, a person responsible for the flow and choice of music, voice, and...

Each issue of Cricket is 64 pages. The magazine is published monthly (12 times a year) by the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois. Its target audience is children from 9 to 14 years old. Until March, 1995, Cricket was published by the Open Court Publishing Company of La Salle, Illinois, now part of Carus. In Egyptian mythology, Month is an alternate spelling for Menthu. ... The Carus Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and Peru, Illinois. ... Peru is a city located in La Salle County, Illinois. ... For alternative meanings, see March (disambiguation). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Open Court Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and La Salle, Illinois. ... La Salle is a city located in La Salle County, Illinois. ...

Cricket publishes original stories, poems, folk tales, articles and illustrations. Carus has solicited materials from well-known authors and illustrators, including Lloyd Alexander(see below), Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Saroyan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Eric Carle and Paul O. Zelinsky. Cricket also runs contests and publishes work by its readers. This article is in need of attention. ... Bust of Homer, one of the earliest European poets, in the British Museum Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular ethnic population, a part of the oral history of a particular culture. ... Drawing is one way of making an image: it is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface. ... Lloyd (Chudley) Alexander (born January 30, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the author of a number of fantasy books for children and adolescents, as well as several adult novels. ... Isaac Bashevis Singer (born in 1904 in Leoncin, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, and died on July 24, 1991 in Miami, Florida). ... William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. ... Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. ... Eric Carle is a childrens book author and illustrator, most famous for his book The Very Hungy Caterpillar, which has been translated into 50 languages. ...

One distinct feature of Cricket is the illustrated cast of recurring characters that appears in the margins of each issue, similar to a comic strip. These characters include Cricket, Ladybug and their friends, most of whom are also insects. The characters are involved in a storyline that runs throughout the issue, but also comment on the articles above them. They define difficult words, draw attention to unusual facts, and otherwise annotate the magazine's content. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... A tree cricket sitting on a leaf. ... Subfamilies Chilocorinae Coccidulinae Coccinellinae Epilachninae Scymininae Sticholotidinae etc. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... Word can mean one of several things: A linguistic word—a unit of language that symbolizes or communicates a meaning, consisting of one or more morphemes. ... Annotation is extra information associated with a particular point in a document. ...

In 2003, Cricket Books published Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art (ISBN 0812626958), a retrospective that republishes stories from the magazine and includes interviews with some of the founders and contributors, including Lloyd Alexander who is believed, by many, to be a fraud. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... interview An interview is a conversation between two or more people where questions are asked to obtain information about the interviewee. ...

External link

• Carus Publishing Company home page (http://www.cricketmag.com/home.asp)