All Upon a Stone Author:Jean Craighead George, Don Bolognese (Illustrator) Traces the journey of a mole cricket as he explores the world above his burrow. — In the woods by a stream lies an ordinary stone, as big as a bear and as a gray as a rain cloud. Like all stones, it seems on first glance peaceful and still and quiet. But forested with ferns, gardened with mosses, the home of stone flies, wood snails, fairy shrimp... more » - and one fuzzy mole cricket - the stone is a miniature community bustling with life.
With affection and with zest, Jean Craighead George and Don Bolognese celebrate the richness of this child-sized part of our natural world, chronicling the adventures of a tiny mole cricket as he travels to the top of the old, worn stone, searching for others of his kind. Young children will delight in the gay world pictured here and in the myriad forms of life one can find, all upon a commonplace stone.« less