Enjoy a sweet spring with Cricket!

Have you ever tapped a maple tree to make your own delicious syrup? You’ll learn the secret of maple syruping in “Sweet Beginnings.” 

Young Dyne Shaizar learns that true courage means going ahead even when you’re afraid in the fantasy adventure “A Willingness to Act.” And in the true story “Fania’s Heart,” a young girl survives a Nazi concentration camp inspired by a symbol of hope given her by her courageous friends.

You might not believe in leprechauns, but one helps a girl find the real treasure in a pot of gold in “The Leprechaun’s Pot.” And “The Man Who Invented Roller Skates” was responsible for some amazing inventions, including a clockwork silver swan that, still today, catches and swallows fish from a tinkling brook.

You’ll enjoy the next episode of “Dragonfly’s First Flight” and of the Crowd-Sorcery story “The Girl Who Writes the Future,” a new story contest, a hilariously courageous buggy adventure, and more, in this issue of Cricket!