After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness.
A little boy saves Kermit from disaster, and the once cranky crab works hard to repay him. "This is Peet's best since Chester, which was his best since Randy's Dandy Lions, which was his best since Ella, etc., etc." -- Kirkus Reviews
Bill Peet was the author of 34 books published by Houghton Mifflin. One of these, BILL PEET: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, was named a 1989 Caldecott Honor Book. All of Bill Peet's books published by Houghton Mifflin Company, including his first book for children published in 1959, HUBERT'S HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURE, remain actively in print today.
In both his career as an author and illustrator of children's books and in his work as sketch artist and continuity illustrator at Walt Disney, Bill Peet created a menagerie of memorable characters. As he himself noted, "I write about animals because I love to
Kermit was not truly a hermit crab, but he was indeed a hermit. This bad-tempered, selfish old Scrooge of a crab lived all to himself in a cave under the rocks off Monterey Bay.
A little boy saves Kermit from disaster, and the once cranky crab works hard to repay him. "This is Peet's best since Chester, which was his best since Randy's Dandy Lions, which was his best since Ella, etc., etc." -- Kirkus Reviews
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