Andra Abramson, Author at Cricket Media, Inc.

Cricket Family Pets All Dressed Up for “National Dress Up Your Pet Day”!

Hooray, it’s National Dress Up Your Pet Day! Little kids (and, ahem, some big kids too) have always loved dressing up their pets and the Cricket family of magazines has recognized and illustrated this common childhood experience numerous times over the years. Here are two beautiful and very different Ladybug covers celebrating the joy of […]

5 Award-Winning Authors You Read First in CRICKET Magazine

If you were lucky enough to grow up as a CRICKET reader, than you were lucky enough to have been exposed to quality literature every month. From its inception, the pages of CRICKET magazine have been crammed with the type of writers who win national writing awards. Here are just 5 of the award-winning […]

Get Ready to Invent Something for the Invent It! Challenge

Go ahead and get your kids thinking about a real world health problem because the Invent It! Challenge is back and better than ever! This 5th annual challenge, a partnership between Cricket Media and the Smithsonian Institution is launching on January 15, 2016 and kids from ages 5 to 21 are invited to participate. […]

Archeology: An Easy Way to Get Your Kids Excited About Science

Two separate stories this week reminded me that archeology is not just for Indiana Jones. It’s relevant, it’s literally under our feet, and it is an easy way to get kids interested in the sciences. Archeology in the News The first story comes from the New York Times and is about an archeological site […]

Road Trip! Ideas for Trips Your Family Should Take Now

Labor Day snuck up on us, school has started, and the peak travel season is over. What does that mean? To me, it means road trip! As soon as the summer crowds start to dwindle and the temperatures moderate, I’m ready to hit some of the best tourist spots in my local area. Whether your […]

An Archeological Find that will Blow Your Mind!

My day went from “ho-hum” to “wow” in the space of about 15 seconds this morning when I heard this story on NPR about how archaeologists have discovered the bones of an early human-like species buried deep in a cave in South Africa. Making the story even more interesting was that the cave can only be reached […]

Developing Good Study Habits

♪ It’s the most wonderful time of the year…♪ Do you remember that ingenious commercial that used the well-known Christmas song to illustrate how parents feel when the first day of school finally comes around? Even today, thinking about the image of those parents gliding happily along on their back-to-school shopping carts while their children trail […]

Back to School Traditions Start the Year off Right

Do you have a back to school tradition in your family? Back when I was a kid, going school shopping especially for new “school” shoes, was a big event in my family. We also did the big school supply shopping trip where my brother and sisters and I would spend an inordinate amount of time […]

The First Day of Kindergarten and the Stupid, Smelly Bus

If your little one is heading off to school for the first time, I feel for you both. That first day of kindergarten is one of the biggies when it comes to parenting. I hear from friends with teens, that heading off to kindergarten and heading off to college evoke the same sort of intense, […]

Helping Your Child Build a Volunteering Habit

With all the extra daylight hours, plus the nice weather that comes with summer, this could be a great time for your family to think about getting out into the world and making a difference. Children as young as 3 can pick up trash in the neighborhood, older kids can make sandwiches for a local […]