As I browsed the shelf looking for an item, the annoying and continuous drone of a cricket chirping began to get on my nerves.
I looked around in the busy children's picture book area and saw several parents reading to their children. There were no Eric Carle books in sight. I drew closer to the C section and the sound grew louder.
Yes, the book had gone bezerk. Chirping away even with the cover closed. No one thanked me, yes being a librarian is a thankless job...
This is ironic because tomorrow I am using a grasshopper puppet which I installed with a chirping mechanism talem from a discarded book *the same book as the afformentioned bezerk book - the Very QUIET Cricket...! I'll be using this rhyme: (crickets and grasshoppers are interchangeable in my world, having had little experience with either)
There was a little grasshopper
Who was always on the jump
And because he never looked ahead
He always got a bump!
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Just so you are aware, the distinction between crickets and grasshoppers arises at the suborder level of classification in the Orthoptera order. Crickets belong to the suborder Ensifera, whereas grasshoppers belong to the suborder Caelifera. The split between these lineages occurred around the Permo-Triassic geologic division, over 250 million years ago. This was the greatest extinction event in the Earth's history, except for the current one we are in right now.
We also had a not so quiet cricket on our shelves and I performed surgery to remove the offending chirper...its a much quieter "C" section now!!
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