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Has anyone received good service from Cricket Media in the last 18 months or so? Please let me know!! Although I have received NO MAGAZINE ISSUES, they want me to DOUBLE MY ORDER NOW and save 55% by sending them yet more money.
I placed an order in late November 2021 for 3 different magazines being delivered to 1 address which were never delivered. I used their website (as suggested in the many USPS mail deliveries and various emails asking me to extend these subscriptions) shortly after the end of January 2022, as no magazines had been received, and there was no response. I phoned on March 3, 2022 and spoke with a very difficult to understand representative named Mariel (she would not spell her name for me, so if it is incorrect, I do apologize). She explained, no, she stated I WANT TO INFORM YOU THAT . . . . blah blah blah that the correct magazines would be delivered within 4 to 6 weeks from 3/3/2022 and here we are on April 21, 2022 (7+ weeks ago) and so now Nina, a supervisor has cancelled ONE of the magazines. I asked her to cancel all 3, but she cancelled just ONE. Now she INFORMS ME (I think it is still Mariel pretending to be Mena, I mean Nina --- do they think I am crazy?) that one will be credited to my original card but the other two refunds will be completed by check. Putting it on my calendar as told my Mena/Nina and then I asked her to send me email confirmation. She stated that she could do that and it would take 24 to 48 hours to get that email to me. While she is doing this, I have typed the post on the Cricket Media page and will post it on other social media sites, just to see what comments I receive. Oh my . . . so very sad . . . All I wanted was a magazine subscription for each of my Grandboys!
Hi Cricket fans, particularly Muse readers who might recognise my comic, Parallel U. Cricket make great magazines, we can all agree, but behind the scenes they are frustratingly difficult to deal with. I had to give up Parallel U because of their lack of payments and communication and I'm still waiting to be paid for my last two comics. A comic that was fun to do but I had to stop because Cricket Media never paid on time and couldn't/wouldn't ever give a straight answer about when or why, if they ever replied at all.
I'm not here to diminish enjoyment of the magazines, they're created by immensely dedicated and talented people, I'm here because there is no discourse behind the scenes and have no where else to go. I would love it if readers could let Cricket know that art is appreciated in the magazines and would probably be quite boring without it, because to them we are at the bottom of the ladder.
Maybe you can help us be heard.
We loved being interviewed in this feature for Cricket Media's MUSE - a children's magazine focused on "Science and Exploration for Inquisitive Minds". Click the link to see or download the high-res four page feature!
https://bit.ly/3LmEkZY
Special thanks to Entosense, Inc, Entomo Farms, and Aspire Food Group for their in-kind donations that allowed us to create the delicious food featured in this piece.
And if you’re not familiar with the magazine, perhaps it’s something that you will consider subscribing to for your 9-14 year old kids or school!
https://shop.cricketmedia.com/muse-magazine-for-kids
What a happy surprise to open Spider magazine this month and find my poem! Cricket Media
Be careful ordering from this company! I ordered 2 Babybug subscriptions at christmas time and neither family received their magazines. Now Cricket Media says they can't find any record of me ordering, yet I have two (2) credit card charges on my bill!!
I have to jump through hoops now to a credit for this! They won't give me a credit because they have "no record of the orders".
Never using this company again!😤
My poem, Grinning Snowmen, is in the new issue of Cricket Magazine. This is a short story time reading that was recently taped.
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TIME and Cricket Media launch Time for Kids in China
Time for Kids announced a new partnership with Cricket Media, award-winning publisher and eLearning provider for children in the United States and China.
Read more:
http://ow.ly/9jNq50H8Hzn
Through the generosity of Cricket Media and the National Wildlife Federation, we were able to provide 150 little picture books for pre-school kids to Santas Without Chimneys, a great organization that provides a happy holiday for homeless children.
Illustration for Howard Pyle's "King Stork"by former Cricket Magazine art director Trina Schart Hyman c.r. Mid 1970s
Today’s highlight: Carol Coven Grannick is a children’s author and poet with a 2020 debut novel in verse, Reeni’s Turn, and multiple poems and short fiction in Cricket Media, Highlights for Children, Ladybug, Babybug, Hello, and Hunger Mountain. Her most recent work for adults appears in a number of literary magazines in print and online, including West Texas Literary Review, Oprelle Publications’s Matter anthology, Red Coyote, 2018 Mizmor Anthology, Otherwise Engaged, A Moment of Your Time, and more. Her upcoming chapbook, Call Me Bob, is contracted with Oprelle Publications. As a columnist and reporter for online journals and blogs, she chronicles the inner life of the writer and the creative process. Her poems “719 Lombard” and “Late Autumn Prairie Grass” are published in Capsule Stories Autumn 2021 Edition: Dancing with Ghosts, now available in paperback and ebook. Grab your copy here: capsulestories.com/autumn-2021-edition
Is there any more precious display of the enormous power of literacy to end poverty than getting beautiful magazines like this from Cricket Media National Wildlife Federation Highlights for Children and other publishers into the hands, homes, and hearts of at risk readers via food pantries, shelters, and early learning centers.
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