Author: - Aileen Fisher
Title: - Cricket in a Thicket
Illustrator: - Feodor Rojankovsky
Publisher: - Charles Scribner’s Sons
Year: - 1963
Format: - Hardcover
Genre: - Poetry
Reading Level: - Assisted, Independent
Interest Level: - Elementary
Topics: - poetry, bugs, animals, plants, seasons, nature, rhyme, rhythm
Summary: - This collection of poems is separated into 4 different “chapters” that contain different topics of poetry: insects, animals, plants, and seasons. All of the poems are centered around a theme of nature and use rhyming and a steady rhythm. The poems are accompanied by detailed and accurate pencil illustrations of the subject of the poems.
Extension Activity: - Students will go on a scavenger hunt outside to find inspiration to write a nature poem. They will explore for a half hour or so, and then choose a specific thing to write about. Then, students will write at least one poem about what they found.
