Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse: Harry to the Rescue!
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Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse: Harry to the Rescue!
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Overview
Tucker Mouse spotted a lost penny in the shoeshine store, so he ran in to get it for his collection. Now the store is closed up tight, and Tucker is trapped. Can Harry Cat find a way to get him out?
These favorite characters from The Cricket in Times Square star in the brand new-adventure created especially for beginning readers.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781429995887 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Square Fish |
| Publication date: | 05/10/2011 |
| Series: | My Readers |
| Sold by: | Macmillan |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 48 |
| File size: | 4 MB |
| Age Range: | 5 - 7 Years |
About the Author
GEORGE SELDEN (1929-1989) wrote not only the adventures of Chester, Harry, Tucker, and their friends but also The Genie of Sutton Place, which was one of School Library Journal's Best Books of the Year.
GARTH WILLIAMS (1912-1996) illustrated all of George Selden's Chester Cricket books. His other distinguished work includes Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and the Little House books.
THEA FELDMAN is the author of numerous books for children, including Suryia and Roscoe, which she co-authored with Dr. Bhagavan Antle, available in Spring 2011 from Henry Holt BYR.
OLGA and ALEKSEY IVANOV are the illustrators of many children's books, including the Charlotte's Web beginning readers in which they also replicated the style of Garth Williams.
Thea Feldman is a prolific author of leveled readers and picture books for children, including Suryia and Roscoe and Suryia Swims!, which she co-authored with Dr. Bhagavan Antle. She has also worked at the Wildlife Conservation Society where she researched and wrote about the animals in the Society's five urban wildlife parks in New York City. She is a former editorial director at Scholastic.
George Selden (1929-1989) was the author of A Cricket in Times Square, winner of the 1961 Newbery Honor and a timeless children's classic. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Selden received his B.A. from Yale, where he was a member of the Elizabethan Club and contributed to the literary magazine. He spent three summer sessions at Columbia University and, after college, studied for a year in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. People often asked Selden how he got the idea for The Cricket in Times Square. "One night I was coming home on the subway, and I did hear a cricket chirp in the Times Square subway station. The story formed in my mind within minutes. An author is very thankful for minutes like those, although they happen all too infrequently." The popular Cricket series grew to seven titles, including Tucker's Countryside and The Old Meadow. In 1973, The Cricket in Times Square was made into an animated film. Selden wrote more than fifteen books, as well as two plays. His storytelling blends the marvelous with the commonplace realities of life, and it was essential to him that his animal characters display true emotions and feelings.
ALEKSEY and OLGA IVANOV are the illustrators of many children's books, including the Charlotte's Web beginning readers, in which they replicated the style of Garth Williams. They live in Colorado.
Garth Williams (1912-96) illustrated all seven of the Chester Cricket books and many other works, including Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web.
ALEKSEY and OLGA IVANOV are the illustrators of many children's books, including the Charlotte's Web beginning readers, in which they also replicated the style of Garth Williams. They live in Colorado.
OLGA and ALEKSEY IVANOV are the illustrators of many children's books, including the Charlotte's Web beginning readers, in which they replicated the style of Garth Williams. They live in Colorado.
Read an Excerpt
CHAPTER 1
The Times Square subway station was busy. Tucker Mouse watched from his home in the drainpipe.
He watched busy people hurrying by. Tucker watched and waited. Tucker waited for people to drop things.
A button from a coat. Sprinkles from an ice cream cone. A wrapper from a stick of gum. Tucker collected all these things — and more!
Tucker loved his collection. Most of all, he loved coins. Pennies. Nickels. Dimes. Quarters.
Tucker had a stack of coins in his drainpipe. It was a tidy little life savings for a mouse.
Plink! Tucker knew that sound. It was a coin hitting the floor. A man in the shoeshine store had dropped a penny.
The penny swirled and rolled, and rolled and swirled, before it landed behind the shoeshine booth. The man could not reach the penny. It was in a space that was too small for a human hand. But Tucker knew the space was just the right size for him. Tucker waited until the station and the store got less busy. Then he ran across the way, slipped behind the shoeshine booth, and grabbed the shiny penny.
Suddenly, it was very dark. The shoeshine store had closed! Tucker looked for a way out. There was just a thin crack under the door. There were no holes in the walls. There were no holes in the ceiling. Tucker was trapped!
(Continues…)
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