The Cricket in Times Square is a children's book which charmingly addresses several themes. They include friendship and the importance of family, responsibility, and hard work. Each of these themes are shown through how the characters behave in the story and in the choices they make. 

It is about about the everyday happenings, some ordinary and some extraordinary, in the lives of a handful of animals. They are stories that are packed with heart, that beg to be read with different voices, and that are filled with some of the most beautiful descriptive passages ever to grace young people’s literature. 

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