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Crickwing
Crickwing
Author: Janell Cannon
Crickwing never set out to be a bully. All he wants is to create his art in peace. But it's not easy being different--a cockroach with a cricked wing and a flair for sculpture is a ready target for the bigger creatures in the forest. Crickwing just wants to even the score, and leafcutter ants are so easy to pick on. . . .Big mistake. Nobody ange...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780152017903
ISBN-10: 0152017909
Publication Date: 9/1/2000
Pages: 48
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Far below the great forest canopy lies a shadowy world that many insects call home. Among the damp clutter of fallen leaves and branches, leaf-cutting ants toil all day while cockroaches await their evening search for food.

One cockroach had looked like all others-until a close call with a hungry toad. In his wild excape from the toad's sticky tongue, he had twisted on of his fine long wings. Since then everyone called him Crickwing.


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