children's cicada book?

Question

I'm trying to help a friend find a book someone showed him about two years ago. He remembers it being a story told by a mother to her daughter about how the grandfather took the mother to see the 17 year locust when she was young and how she now takes the daughter to see them. It was illustrated for children obviously and was only about 1/4 inch thick. It was about 8" by an unknown dimesion.
I've tried researching cicada children's books, but am finding way too many. Thanks

yahzmin - that sounds like he described, and the measurements look about right I found a picture of the front, and will print it and the description and run it by him. and as soon as yahoo allows (4 hours) I'll choose your answer as best

Answer 1

Think this might be it:

"When the Woods Hum / words by Joanne Ryder and illustrations
by Catherine Stock. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1991. 29 p.

This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of a father who introduces his young daughter to the amazing life of the periodical cicada. First they find a few holes dug by nymphs, and he gives her a dried cicada he collected as a boy, 17 years before. Then, one warm evening, he takes her to the woods to watch thousands of nymphs crawl out of their holes, climb trees, and shed their skins. After a day or so of rest, the cicadas fill the woods with their humming songs.

17 years later, the girl returns with her young son. With her father, they walk "through the woods that hummed and roared with the sound of cicadas calling at last, calling once more."

Sounds like yours?!

Answer 2

You obviously haven't done your research if you're asking this question. You're not going to get published, but I'm basing that on plenty of things other than your writing. You haven't bothered to put in the time to do the research (like picking up a copy of Writers' Market, learning about agents, query letters, and such). Very, very few publishers will accept solicited manuscripts. That's the agents' jobs. Nobody is going to take you seriously if you're not going to bother to do the work. And you obviously haven't bothered to do the work. My advice is for you to give up the idea of publishing until you really understand the business. You obviously don't.