• Publication: Cricket, the Magazine for Children, April 1990Publication Record # 478383 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Editors of Cricket, the Magazine for Children
• Date: 1990-04-00
• Publisher: Carus Corporation
• Price:
  $2.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 84
• Format:
  other^?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Notes:

  • Magazine is called Cricket on the contents page, but is called Cricket, the Magazine for Children in this magazine's indicia.
  • Special Cat issue. Front wraparound cover and contents page illustrations by cartoonist Frisco Henstra.
  • General content magazine for children 9—14. Only stories with speculative content are listed.
  • Uri Shulevitz' story is illustrated with fifteen black-and-white illustrations. It is adapted from the Yiddish by I. L. Peretz.
  • There are also non-genre stories by Kathleen Parlin Van Voorhees, Betty Hickey, Gertrude Teutsch, and Cynthia Rylant. This issue also has two stories by Joy Elizabeth Hancock, one of which is an anthropomorphized cat and baseball story.
  • "Stone" by Peter Dickinson is a story from his collection Merlin Dreams.
  • 7" x 9" stapled magazine.
  • Volume 17, Number 8.
  • Marianne Carus: Editor-In-Chief. Editor: Lynn Gutknecht. Deborah Vetter: Associate Editor. Theresa Gaffey: Associate Editor.
  • ISSN: 0090-6034.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • Casey in the Bath • short fiction by Cynthia DeFelice
• 5 •  Casey in the Bath • interior artwork by Chris Riddell
• 6 •  Casey in the Bath [2] • interior artwork by Chris Riddell
• 7 •  Casey in the Bath [3] • interior artwork by Chris Riddell
• 8 •  Casey in the Bath [4] • interior artwork by Chris Riddell
• 9 •  Casey in the Bath [5] • interior artwork by Chris Riddell
• 18 • Piers and the Begonia • short story by Joan Lennon
• 18 •  Piers and the Begonia • interior artwork by Kevin Hawkes
• 21 •  Piers and the Begonia [2] • interior artwork by Kevin Hawkes
• 23 •  Piers and the Begonia [3] • interior artwork by Kevin Hawkes
• 49 • The Magician • (1973) • short story by Uri Shulevitz
• 49 •  The Magician • (1973) • interior artwork by Uri Shulevitz
• 69 • Stone (Part 2 of 2) • serial by Peter Dickinson
• 69 •  Stone (Part 2 of 2) • interior artwork by Frisco Henstra
• 71 •  Stone (Part 2 of 2) [2] • interior artwork by Frisco Henstra
• 73 •  Stone (Part 2 of 2) [3] • interior artwork by Frisco Henstra
• 74 •  Stone (Part 2 of 2) [4] • interior artwork by Frisco Henstra