The Great Cricket Picket app for iPhone and iPad

The Great Cricket Picket is a rhyming insect adventure featuring: a kicked cricket, a protest, snoring, & a cookie.

In this humorous story written by Nathan Tafoya and illustrated by Melissa Bastow, bugs join forces in order to stand up to a boy when he hurts one of their own. 

The Great Cricket Picket is a great conversational starter for parents and educators looking to discuss bullying, tolerance, and consequences in general. The storyline of The Great Cricket Picket helps children develop social, empathetic, & emotional-learning skillsets.

This fast-paced tale also has a free Read-Along Companion for both the soft and hard cover versions of the book.

The interactive book app features:
- Read To Me/Read By Myself options
- Narration with highlighted text
- Custom music & animations on every page
- A maze
- Memory games
- Puzzles
- A coloring exercise

Parents supplementing the traditional print edition with the book app will appreciate the combination of their child’s interactive reading experience with educational lessons & fun game-play.

From the author: I hope this book helps fight bullying, in its own, small way. I hope my childrens book entertains children while teaching them to respect others & to be kind. I hope that the children who read my book grow up to make the world a better place, in any part due to a story about bugs their parents read to them at bedtime. I want a kind future for my children. I want to be a part of the solution, because "any is too many."

DON’T FORGET! On the dedication page are resources for parents, teacher, leaders, and kids to address both victims & perpetrators of bullying. Included in the resource links are helpful toolkits & how-tos as well.

This book is dedicated, with permission, to the memory of Steven Urry.