Cricket Media

08/12/2025

Ready... set... go! 🏃🏽‍➡️Check out these amazing winning art contest entries, published in the latest issue of CRICKET Magazine! 🖍️Budding artists were asked to submit their best drawing of a race, and they delivered.

08/12/2025

⭐Introducing Reading Stars,⭐ a fun, easy-to-use reading app that helps kids build skills and confidence— one story at a time! Turn reading into a habit that sticks with fun games, daily rewards, and a huge library curated by Cricket editors. 📚Grow confident readers in just 10 minutes a day!

✨ Download Reading Stars today: https://tinyurl.com/yz5jhypa

08/11/2025

! 🖍️ Finished with back to school shopping? This fun slime is an amazing way to use up broken or stubby crayons from last year!

📸 Did you and your family try this activity? Send us a pic!

08/11/2025

This is an inspiring science learning opportunity for the whole family! Are you planning to see the Perseids these next few days?

Perseid Meteor Shower 2025 – Peak Viewing Guide 🌠
Don’t miss one of the most spectacular astronomical events of the year! 🤩 The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks August 11–13, 2025, with up to 100 meteors per hour lighting up the night sky.

✨ Best time to watch: After midnight until dawn
✨ Best viewing tip: Find a dark, open spot away from city lights
✨ Family-friendly idea: Bring blankets, snacks, and turn it into a stargazing party! 🌌

08/08/2025

Inspire a lifelong love of reading with Cricket magazines! 📚Each magazine is packed with award-winning stories and articles, beautiful illustrations, puzzles, poems, and activities — all expertly tailored to your child’s age and stage!

08/07/2025

! Hold on to those last magical days of summer! 💐This beautiful, nostalgic cover for the July 1978 issue of CRICKET was created by Monika Laimgruber!

Originally from Austria and later living and working in Germany and Switzerland, Monika Laimgruber is the prolific illustrator of over 100 children's books, particularly fairy tales such as "Little Red Cap," "The Ugly Duckling," "Snow White and Rose Red," and more!

She has won prestigious awards for her artwork, including the Illustration Prize of the City of Vienna and the Austrian State Prize for Illustration. She was even on the honorary list for the Hans Christian Andersen Prize! Her art graces the covers of several classic issues of CRICKET!

08/06/2025

Calling all eagle-eyed observers! 🚀 Can you spot 10 toy rockets in the Blue Moon toy store?

LADYBUG Magazine is full of fun puzzles and activities, delightful stories and poems, fascinating nonfiction, and beautiful artwork for young children between ages 3-6! Check below to discover more!

08/05/2025

What could be more adorable than puppies and kittens?🐈🐕Charles Ghigna's poem for LADYBUG Magazine is as cute as can be! Are you more of a cat person or a dog person?

08/04/2025

! 🌟 This fun glow-in-the-dark take on everyone's favorite game is a great way to pass time on a beautiful summer night!

08/01/2025

We were thrilled to hear from CRICKET super fan Katie G., who has been reading the magazines since age 7– and even has an Old Cricket tattoo! 🦗

Katie explained to us that she's a huge admirer of author Lloyd Alexander. It's not so secret anymore that Lloyd Alexander served as the "voice" of our beloved Old Cricket in the earlier years of CRICKET Magazine. Outside the world of CRICKET, he's probably best known for his wonderful fantasy series, the Chronicles of Prydain!

Katie chose to honor Alexander by getting a tattoo of the flaming sword, Dyrnwyn, from The Chronicles of Prydain. But, she says, "When I decided to get the tattoo of Dyrnwyn, I knew I needed to include Old Cricket writing it into being to honor Alexander and the influence he had on me through both his fantastic novels and his thoughtful and endlessly fascinating Old Cricket columns. Through them, he taught me to respect and value everyone’s life and stories, to see them as intertwined always, and to never stop asking questions."

Read our whole conversation with Katie in our blog post below! 👇

07/31/2025

! 🎣This July 1979 cover art by Enrico Arno really combines two of the things that make July, well, July: Independence Day and summer vacation! You never hear about the Founding Fathers going fishing and picnicking with the Founding Mothers and Founding Kids, do you?

As we say goodbye to July, we want to know how you and your family are doing on your summer reading goals! What are you reading? Anything you want to take the time to read before summer comes to an end?

07/30/2025

Happy International Day of Friendship!👥🧡 A dog is often a kid's best friend! Who's your favorite set of best friends in children's literature? Frog and Toad? Wilbur and Charlotte? Stanley Yelnats and Zero? Tell us all about it!