In Chapter 4 of A Cricket in Times Square, Tucker and Harry take Chester up to the street to see Times Square. If you want to see what Chester saw, this link will take you to a live webcam located high on a building looking down on Times Square so you can see what's happening there right this moment! Can you imagine what it must have looked like to Chester looking up from the sidewalk? I'm surprised he could even see his Connecticut star with all those city lights!
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| A pet cricket and his container made of a gourd. Watercolor by Qi Baishi(1864–1957). |
You heard more about Mario keeping Chester as a pet. He even bought a cricket cage from Sai Fong! In ancient China, people really did keep crickets as pets. But they used ceramic jars or hollowed out gourds for cricket houses so the cricket's chirp would sound louder in the hollow space. Would a cardboard matchbox do the same thing? Why or why not?
Mr. Smedley certainly was impressed with Chester and his chirping. Do you think this is important to the story? Can you predict what might happen because Chester and Mr. Smedley met?
Have fun reading Chapters 7-9 for next Friday. Don't forget to do your trivia questions and bring them to school. And before you go...here, have a fortune cookie!
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