Adventures of a Cricket

Adventures of a Cricket (Vietnamese: Dế Mèn phiêu lưu ký) is a Vietnamese children novel written by Tô Hoài. The novel is about a cricket named Mèn and his adventure in a human village and the animal kingdom. The cricket protagonist was originally featured in a 1941 short story by Hoài's Con Dế Mèn ("The Cricket") to the Tân Dân Publishing House, which corresponds to the first three chapters of the modern edition. Around that year, he then wrote second story eponymously titled Dế Mèn phiêu lưu ký (Adventures of a Cricket), which corresponds to the last seven chapters, and later editions of the novel merged it with Con Dế Mèn.