A blogger made a link from
her page to my Times Square pictures page and blogged that she
was using it to show her daughter pictures of Times Square so she
could better picture the setting of the book A Cricket in Times
Square that they were reading.
That got me thinking. I
wondered if there were any people who were reading the book who
would be interested in sending a Flat Stanley-type flat cricket to
tour the real Times Square. So I googled Flat Stanley and
Cricket in Times Square and found a 3rd grade class in North
Carolina who had just had a Flat Stanley visit the classroom with
one of the students and it had inspired all the kids to start
reading the Flat Stanley book series and then in the next paragraph
the teacher mentioned that they were about to start reading A
Cricket in Times Square. I couldn't believe it - a perfect fit
for what I was looking for. So I contacted the teacher and
offered to host a class set of flat crickets to take to Times Square
with us and they were up for it!
So, this week 18 cute little crickets
arrived in the mail. We loved how different they all looked.
So we took them with us first to The
Martha Stewart Show taping and then to Times Square and to the Train
and Subway stations. Here are a few of the pictures. I
was raining all day yesterday and so we weren't able to get the best
pictures and we weren't able to find a good new stand place that
wasn't overrun with people.
Click on each thumbnail to see all
the other crickets in Times Square
oops! didn't notice that this
cricket was upside down until I downloaded the pictures
click on each thumbnail to view the
other crickets in the underground train station
News Stand in the Subway
News Stand on the streets
If anyone else is ever interested in
sending a flat cricket to Times Square or any other flat that would
like to go to a specific NYC place, then
email me and I'll let you know if I'm headed that way anytime
soon.
