What year was the book that Jiminy Cricket is based off of published?
Talking Cricket The Talking Cricket (Italian: "Il Grillo Parlante" ) is a fictional character that appears in Carlo Collodi's 1883 book "The Adventures of Pinocchio" ("Le avventure di Pinocchio").
Coming Up for Air Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian era childhood. The novel is pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism and capitalism are killing the best of rural England, "everything cemented over", and there are great new external threats.