Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #82: The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

By: Elizabeth Bird

Elizabeth Bird — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:00:56 +0000

All right! Time Square movie defenders! Did not see that one coming but I’m willing to believe you. After all, I’ve a great fondness for that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi film.

By: Sondy

Sondy — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:52:07 +0000

I think I didn’t read the book until I’d seen the cartoon — and remember it as being wonderful. I’m glad Eric thinks so, too!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:29:40 +0000

You crack me up!! “It’s fine that you aren’t familiar with it…” meaning don’t run out and look for that unknown book? hilarious.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:30:06 +0000

Are you implying that Chuck Jones’s masterful adaptation of The Cricket in Times Square is anything less than a masterpiece?

I find the film to be not only Jones’s best post-Warner Bros. work, but one of the best American films of the 1970s (admittedly a weak decade for American film). The film can usually be found on dvd and video releases paired with Jones’s adaptation of Kipling’s The White Seal (which is pretty good as well).