The Cricket Warrior: A Chinese Tale
School year: Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5
No. of pages 32
Published: 2016
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This retelling of the Chinese folktale, The Fighting Cricket, first recorded in the seventeenth century, is a tale of extraordinary bravery, sacrifice, and familial devotion. Young Wei nians family is in trouble. Their farm has been fruitless for three years and their only hope of keeping it is to find a cricket for the emperors cricket fights. When Wei nian accidentally loses the cricket that they capture he is devastated, but an old man offers him a choice. Will Wei nian become the greatest cricket warrior of all to save his family? And if he does, will he ever find his way home again? [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].
This book is aimed at children at US 1st grade-4th grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Margaret K. McElderry Books .
Raymond Chang was born in Hong Kong, moved to Shanghai when he was very young, and lived in Shanghai during the 1940s, from the Japanese occupation through the Communist regime. He later graduated from the University of London in chemistry and earned a PhD from Yale University. He taught chemistry at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Warwick Hutton had a strong conviction that pictures for children should have depth and distance, space and mood. His own books- Noah and the Great Flood , The Sleeping Beauty , The Nose Tree , Jonah and the Great Fish , Beauty and the Beast , Moses in the Bulrushes , and The Cricket Warrior -demonstrate that conviction. He resided in Cambridge, England.