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The Realm of Imagination the realm of imagination October 2016 $4.95 the realm of imagination October 2016 Volume 44 Number 2 CRICKET STAFF Lonnie Plecha Editor Karen Kohn Senior Art Director Patrick Murray Designer Carolyn Digby Conahan Staff Artist Deborah Vetter Senior Contributing Editor Julie Peterson Copyeditor Jestine Ware Assistant Editor Adrienne Matzen Permissions Specialist CRICKET ADVISORY BOARD Marianne Carus Founder and Editor-in-Chief from 1972–2012 Kieran Egan Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Betsy Hearne Professor, University of Illinois, Champaign; Critic, Author Sybille Jagusch Children’s Literature Specialist Linda Sue Park Author © JOOHEE YOON Katherine Paterson Author Barbara Scharioth Former Director of the COVER AND BORDER International Youth Library in Munich, Germany Anita Silvey Author, Critic by JooHee Yoon Sandra Stotsky Professor of Education Reform, “Monster Jam” University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Roger Sutton Editor-in-Chief of digital The Horn Book Magazine, Critic Ann Thwaite Author, Critic JooHee Yoon is an illustrator and printmaker who has been drawing and making things as far back as she can remember. Her artwork has appeared in newspapers, picture books, posters, and on clothing. October is her favorite month since it includes pumpkins, Halloween, Educational Press Association of America Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge autumn leaves, and chilly weather. She enjoys Golden Lamp Award Honor Certificate for Outstanding drawing animals, especially cats and other feline Distinguished Achievement Award Achievement creatures. International Reading Association Paul A. Witty Short Story Award 1988–1993, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011–2015 National Magazine Award Society of Midland Authors finalist in the category of Award for Excellence in General Excellence Children’s Literature October 2016, Volume 44, Number 2, © 2016, Carus Publishing dba Cricket Media. All rights reserved, including right of reproduction in whole or in part, in any form. View submission guidelines and submit manuscripts online at cricketmag.submit- table.com. Please note that we no longer accept unsolicited hard copy submissions. Not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or other material. All letters and competition Is it time to renew? entries are assumed for publication and become the property of Cricket Media. For information regarding our privacy policy and compliance with the Children’s Online shop.cricketmedia.com Privacy Protection Act, please visit our website at cricketmedia.com/privacy or write to us at Cricket/COPPA, 70 East Lake Street, Suite 800, Chicago, IL 60601. 1-800-821-0115 continued on page 47 5 Scarecrows by Justin Werfel 11 Life of a Leaf by Buffy Silverman 12 The Man in the Monster Suit by Shelley Walden 16 Which Monster Are You? by Ginger Garret 20 Vanquishing the Hungry Chinese Zombie by Claudine Gueh 26 Kyngdom by Cricket Chatterboxers 28 Hope on High by Lindsay Koch 33 Autumn by Allison Stevick 34 Vanishers by Josh Allen 39 All for a Lizard by Nell Wright 2 Letterbox 4 Cricket Country by Carolyn Digby Conahan 38 Ugly Bird’s Crossbird Puzzle 45 Cricket League 46 Cricket and Ladybug by Carolyn Digby Conahan 48 Old Cricket Says cover and contents page art © 2016 by JooHee Yoon THIS ONE’S FOR YOU. MEWY YAY! Dear Everybuggy, Hi, Everybuggy! Halloween! Is every buggy around the mailbox? OK, I know Your magazine is by far my favorite thing to get My street is IT for Halloween. There is this you get this a million bajillion times, but . I. Love. in the mail. Other than that it’s wondrously huge mansion that decorates maaadly (like, This. Magazine! When we were looking at magazine ineffable. brand-new red Mustang suspended in the options, I was really only into poems. But your I don’t like picking favorites, but I WOW! LET’S air with skeletons in it) and turns their magazine inspired me to create a whole story! would probably say Muffin, you’re my TRICK-OR- house into a haunted house and hands I love looking at all of the stories, poems, favorite buggy. I share your love of TREAT THERE! out stuffed animals! The police literally letters, pictures, everything! Ladybug, I love you. all things books and vocabulary. Do close off the street. I also like handing You’re hilarious! You could be a little bit less bossy, you know what these words mean: out candy to trick-or-treaters. though. Ugly Bird, you kinda need to calm down. mountebank, syzygy, mondegreen. Abigail S., age 11 Could the buggies find out if Little Crow has any Can you come up with a word that I Santa Monica, California relation to him? Zoot, I play the violin and have for don’t know? Please try! Halloween, Down to Earth almost six years! Muffin, you are soooooo cute! I love Science Olympiad! It’s a Pussy, you’re adorable! Cricket, you pull the whole tournament where teams of kids compete in A friend of mine is going as a creepy package together. Thank you, everybuggy. events of all science subjects. You do tests, experi- doll—she likes horror. I’m just not into intense Trill Woodhena, age 12 ments, and engineering projects. It’s fun, and it’s and scary sorts of things. I see Halloween as an B.I.G. Dorms, This Month nice to meet everyone and be with your team opportunity to dress up as a musical or book members. I mainly do biology and ecology. character. So I am being Mary Poppins! Magical Dear Trill, Keep up the great work; what you do is amaz- nannies for the win! Yes, we all wait around the mailbox each day ing. Au revoir! Iki! Aloha! Bye! Sydney, age 13 for the mail snail—and also around the computer Zack S., age 12 The Woods for email! Austin, Texas Halloween, Pudding’s Place Love, Cricket Dear Zack, Dear Everybuggy, I wasn’t sure about your words, so I looked My English teacher gave me your magazine, Dear Everybuggy, them up. Thanks for enlarging my vocabulary! and I loved it because it is funny, full of surprises, I love your magazine. I first discovered Cricket How about weir? Do you know what that means? and very interesting. I think Muffin, George, when a friend of my mom gave us a bunch of old Short and sweet! and Tail are really cute. SOMETIMES issues. I loved “The Star Shard” (April 2008–April Love, I go swimming, snowboarding, I DREAM OF 2009) and “Rapunzel’s Bad Hair Day” (February Muffin biking, Rollerblading, ice-skating, and TRAVELING TO 2008). I also like dolphins, cats, the color blue, skateboarding. Of course, I go to RUSSIA! doing crafts, performing, and reading. I am a Dear Everybuggy, school. Our region is famous for its swimmer and dancer. I’m a total Harry Potter geek. Hi! I adore reading and watching book-based fishing industry and sled dog races, I can recite the names of all the chapters in order, movies. Some of my book suggestions are Percy too. My family likes spending the summarize them, and tell you every notable, Jackson and the Olympians and Harry Potter. summer by the seaside. I dream of funny, or inspirational quote in the series. I also Some movies I recommend are How to Train Your traveling to Paris, but my dad dreams enjoy Shakespeare and words. My current favor- Dragon, Harry Potter, and Big Hero 6. I play piano of traveling to Singapore, and my ites are translucent, vivacious, and alluring. and speak Russian. mom’s dream is traveling around Spain. Cricket, thank you for being so patient VIVACIOUS AND I love your mag because it has a Polina Zakharchenko, age 17 with Ladybug, for whom I have several ALLURING, little bit of everything. I think you are Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia pieces of advice. First, think less about THAT’S ME! being too hard on Ladybug. She how incredible you are and more just has a hard time controlling I have five beautiful chickens: a crazy buff about other buggies. Second, I think herself. Ugly Bird would probably orpington named Zahava (gold in Hebrew), two you should try being an actress— be nicer if you just gave him a barred rocks named Shakespeare (barred/bard— you have just the right personality. chance. get it?) and Puck (from A Midsummer Night’s Sela Martin-Lopez Natasha E. Haines, age 10 Dream), and two red stars named Scoot (because Sacramento, California ALLURING, OR Fredericksburg, Virginia when you pet her she scoots under your hand) and ALARMING? 2 Shooter (she will not actually my friends found my jokes funny CHIRPS FROM CRICKET’S shoot you . most likely). ALL THIS TALK OF due to my excessive usage of LETTERBOX AND CHATTERBOX Shooter is the leader CHICKENS MAKES such outlandish words. Then and really loud! Her butt ME NERVOUS. DON’T TELL I decided to speak a bit Hey, Muffin! I live in the “land of ponies.” is bald. Scoot is next in ME–YOU’RE more like a normal twenty- There are ponies on the beach, at a restaurant, the pecking order, and CHICKEN OF first–century kid. Anyway, you name it! she is curious. If you hold CHICKENS? keep on using words! Emi V. Shelton, age 9 food over her head one Neminem, age 13 Chincoteague, Virginia second too long she will jump Castle of Books three feet in the air and grab it! Kyngdom Q & A My last name is Greek for “the needle,” Shakespeare is next; she is very bold because some of my ancestors were sail makers. I and always the first to try new things. Zahava Dear Cricket magazine, was named after a character in a Shakespeare play is next, and she is kinda mean, but we love her I love your magazine, especially the fantasy who has a twin brother just like I do.
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