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I just received the September 2013 issue today and it was amazing.
The cover is absolutely brilliant. I loved seeing some of the old friends- Silvery, Weenie, The Aunts, Phillip and Sarah, Charlie and Crystal, and Mimi. The map is really great. It reminds me of the map that was shown in the September 2003 issue (when the gang was playing Pin Tail on George). In fact, I checked the old map, and nothing was moved around. Congratulations! You just passed my editorial check.
I have all the issues from December 2002-December 2006 and January 2009-September 2013. That's about seven years of Crickets. I've seen all kinds of cool characters and great adventures such as the dragons (Gronk Jr. and Granny Gronk), the pixies, and Silvery's wild catfish (and Ladybug's amazing poetry). Thanks for all the good times, Cricket!
In September 2003's Cricket Country, Ladybug writes down all her adventures "as best as I can remember them". It seems to me that we finally got to see what she wrote down- ten years later. Wow. Ten years. Thanks, Cricket. You've managed to make me feel really old.
Over all these years, there is only one thing that I don't like about Cricket: the use of the word hoofs. In the December 2002 issue, someone pointed out that you had used "hoofs" in "Star" (several years later I read "Star" when it was reprinted and I noticed the "hoofs" immediately) and ever since it has annoyed me. Finally, one day, I looked it up in my dictionary and was chagrined to discover that it was actually a word. That being said, I still don't like that word. Still, considering that's the only thing that actually annoys me about Cricket, I consider that a job very well done!
How long has ever Cricketeer been reading Cricket? What have been your favorite parts and stories?
Thanks for your kind words, Ruby! Over the years, our editors have fastidiously checked the Random House Unabridged Dictionary for preferred spellings, and we generally prefer to add a simple s to make a word plural, if allowable. Cricket is quirky like that. But feel free to use hooves if you prefer. Whatever age, we hope Cricket helps keep its readers young at heart!
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submitted by Ruby M., age 14, Cricket Country
(August 31, 2013 - 10:00 pm)
(August 31, 2013 - 10:00 pm)
I had a line in the Letterbox! I feel so famous! Thank you, editors/Admins/I'm not even sure who!
You're welcome! We're starting to include more from CB in the mag now. Our awesome CBers words of wisdom are worth sharing with all!
Admin
(September 1, 2013 - 9:38 am)
Ditto that! The first paragraph from my I was Thinking thread where I made Dehlia was there! Plus, that was my first ever RP that I started (which is still going almost a whole year later) so that's really special to me! Thanks True for helping me keep that going, and thanks Admins for publishing that!!!!!
@ WritingWarrior:
I really liked what you said about the CB! It was a really nice description of it.
Now, I've been getting Cricket for about six months longer than I've been here, so almost a year and a half, though my favorite story came from an issue my grandma bought me. It was the September 2011 issue, the story, A Shield for a Wolf. I loved that story! I read it over and over. Maybe because I can relate to the main character, who prefers to stay fairly isolated, and faces social prosecution. I don't face it to her degree of course, but I'm not overly socially accepted, so thanks for accepting me with all my quirks, fellow Chatterboxers! ;)
(September 2, 2013 - 5:39 pm)
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(September 2, 2013 - 3:53 pm)
I am the same person as Josiah S. You know, that funny kid who suggested in the Letterbox that Cricket and friends make a study of Ugly Bird's droppings? Yeah, that one. (snicker)
I want to enter the September art contest, but what the real killer about it is that only one panel is allowed for my Cricket Country adventure. I could work with a 2 or 3 panel limit, but having the story confined to only one panel is driving me nuts. I did think of a few ideas...
1. Ugly Bird is suddenly well-refined and has excellent manners (as well as good hygiene) and formally, politely requests the bugs' permission to eat them.
2. Cricket and Ladybug are abducted by aliens...
3. Ugly Bird vs Ugly Beard!!!!
Hi, Josiah! We've enjoyed receiving your letters off and on for years. I never connected you with Joe Dosie Doe and J the S! Yes, just one panel will be a real challenge, but we look forward to seeing what you come up with. These are all good ideas. Let me know if you want me to delete them, to keep them your own till the contest deadline.
Admin
(September 3, 2013 - 1:17 pm)
OH MY GOSH I WONDERED IF THAT WAS YOU!!!! I was actually going to ask you if you'd sent something in via email! That's so cool!
(September 3, 2013 - 8:52 pm)
I've been getting Cricket for a couple years now.
That review of Borgel from me on the Chatterbox when I was eleven. I actually thought someone else had read Borgel and then I read it and saw my name and said "Oh, that's me." If anyone thought it was a bad review, I agree. I was eleven.
(September 8, 2013 - 5:34 pm)
My family has been getting Cricket for. . . um. . . okay, let's just say, as long as I can remember. I have a pile right next to me that has from September 2009-September 2013, and I'm sure we have much more, somewhere.
The Star Shard, The Princess and the Golden Fish and lots of other stories my non-existant brain can't think of right now are my favorite.
Today, I was reading the Letterbox earlier and when I came to the 'Lines from the Chatterbox', I had a strange sense of deja vo (Acck, I can't remember how to spelll it!! . . . oh, I can't even remember whether that's the right term. . . I don't have a brain right now, okay?). And then I recognized everyone's names on the bottom! That's so cool, I never realized that. Hmm, I also was reading Blonde Heroines Rule's RP earlier today and now I read the front again, in the magazine.
I was planning to write to Cricket. . . I even write the letters, but they always get to long and random and rambly. Oh, well, one of these days, I'm just going to send them all of them and see what they make of them. XD
Corina, you can email Cricket's Letterbox at cricket@cricketmagkids.com if that's easier for you. We love hearing from our readers!
Admin
(September 17, 2013 - 9:24 pm)