Just So Stories vs The Cricket on the Hearth: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Short stories, British and irish fiction, Short Stories, Children's fiction, Fiction
Just So Stories
Seven tales that explain special things about animals, such as how the whale got his tiny throat, the camel his hump and the leopard his spots.
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The Cricket on the Hearth
One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the…
The verdict
- Readers rate Just So Stories highest: Just So Stories 4.0 · The Cricket on the Hearth 3.5.
- Just So Stories has the widest readership — 50016 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Just So Stories | The Cricket on the Hearth | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (50016) | 3.5 (8904) |
| Hardcover | — | 3.0 (7) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (83) | 4.0 (83) |
Reception
| Just So Stories | The Cricket on the Hearth | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 50016 | 8904 |
| Editions | 245 | 774 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 20461 | 6089 |
| Pages | 113 | — |