by Eric Carle
Category
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AnimalsTranscript
00:00The Very Quiet Cricket
00:13By Eric Carle
00:15One warm day from a tiny egg a little cricket was born.
00:19Welcome!
00:21chirped a big cricket rubbing his wings together.
00:25The little cricket wanted to answer.
00:28So he rubbed his wings together.
00:31But nothing happened.
00:33Not a sound.
00:34Good morning!
00:36whizzed a locust spinning through the air.
00:39The little cricket wanted to answer.
00:42So he rubbed his wings together.
00:45But nothing happened.
00:48Not a sound.
00:49Hello!
00:51whispered a praying mantis scraping its huge front legs together.
00:56The little cricket wanted to answer.
00:59So he rubbed his wings together.
01:02But nothing happened.
01:04Not a sound.
01:06Good day!
01:07crunched a worm munching its way out of an apple.
01:11The little cricket wanted to answer.
01:14So he rubbed his wings together.
01:17But nothing happened.
01:19Not a sound.
01:21Hi!
01:22bubbled a spittlebug.
01:24slurping in a sea of froth.
01:27The little cricket wanted to answer.
01:30So he rubbed his wings together.
01:33But nothing happened.
01:35Not a sound.
01:37Good afternoon!
01:39screeched a cicada clinging to a branch of a tree.
01:43The little cricket wanted to answer.
01:46So he rubbed his wings together.
01:49But nothing happened.
01:51Not a sound.
01:53How are you?
01:54hummed a bumblebee flying from flower to flower.
01:58The little cricket wanted to answer.
02:01So he rubbed his wings together.
02:04But nothing happened.
02:06Not a sound.
02:08Good evening!
02:10whirred a dragonfly gliding above the water.
02:13The little cricket wanted to answer.
02:16So he rubbed his wings together.
02:19But nothing happened.
02:21Not a sound.
02:23Good night!
02:25buzzed the mosquitoes dancing among the stars.
02:28The little cricket wanted to answer.
02:31So he rubbed his wings together.
02:34But nothing happened.
02:37Not a sound.
02:38A lunar moth sailed quiet through the night.
02:42And the cricket enjoyed the stillness.
02:45As the lunar moth disappeared silently into the distance.
02:49The cricket saw another cricket.
02:52She too, was a very quiet cricket.
02:55Then he rubbed his wings together one more time.
02:59And this time.
03:01He chirped the most beautiful sound that she had ever heard.
03:06The end.