The Cricket Warrior: A Chinese Tale

A young boy must become the greatest cricket warrior of all time in order to save his family in this stirring folktale about bravery and sacrifice.

This retelling of the Chinese folktale, “The Fighting Cricket,” first recorded in the seventeenth century, is a tale of extraordinary bravery, sacrifice, and familial devotion. Young Wei nian’s family is in trouble. Their farm has been fruitless for three years and their only hope of keeping it is to find a cricket for the emperor’s cricket fight...