Cricket
“Cricket” magazine started chirping about the same time as Paul & Andy Cantrell did. When I saw it for the first time, I was struck not only by the lively intelligence of the magazine, but by its assumption that it was addressing itself to other lively intelligences.
André Carus, and the publishing company that has grown up around Cricket magazine, stay true to that. Some companies seem to say, “This is for smart kids.” Cricket products always seem to say “You’re a kid, so you’re smart. You like a challenge, and you can sense the difference between real fun and mindless pablum.” I like that point of view.
The last catalog I have from Cricket is for Fall, 2005. I hope you can still request the same one; it has that classic picture of a developing reader: a child reading by flashlight under the blanket.