Chirping Crickets Crickets on a summer evening make a chirping sound by rubbing their legs against a bumpy vein on their wings. This illustrated introduction to crickets relates intriguing facts such as how crickets hear with their knees.

 

This book is part of a book series called Lets Read-And-Find-Out Science .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Franklyn M. Branley was the originator of the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series and the author of close to 150 popular books about scientific topics for young readers of all ages. He was Astronomer Emeritus and former Chairman of the American Museum of Natural History-Hayden Planetarium. Megan Lloyd has illustrated more than forty books for children, including The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams, Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli, and The Mixed-Up Rooster by Pamela Duncan Edwards. She lives with her husband on a farm in Pennsylvania, where she raises sheep, chickens, and cows. Some of the rabbits from her vegetable garden have even been kind enough to allow Ms. Lloyd to sketch them as models for this book. Melvin and Gilda Berger are the authors of more than two hundred books for children. Their books have recieved awards from the National Science Teachers Association, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. The Bergers live in New York.