Moving Day - Hardcover

Kalan, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688139485 ISBN 13: 9780688139483

Publisher: Greenwillow, 1996

Synopsis

A hermit crab looking for a new home tries several different shells before finding one that fits just right

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Kalan has also written the charming children's books Rain and Blue Sea, both illustrated by Donald Crewes. Kalan holds a master's degree in education and has taught reading to both gifted and remedial students from kindergarten through the fourth grade.

From Publishers Weekly:

This slight but upbeat story takes place on the ocean floor, where a hermit crab searches for his ideal shell. Like Goldilocks, he rejects a number of possibilities, declaring, "Too long,/ too wide,/ too big,/ too small,/ these shells/ will not do at all." At last, the picky crustacean discovers a nautilus with "more room inside./ Room to grow,/ room to hide." Kalan (Jump, Frog, Jump!) compares adjectives such as "fancy" and "plain," "heavy" and "light," introducing beginners to a range of opposites. Abolafia (Fox Tale; My Three Uncles) makes the most of the limited material, presenting simultaneous views of underwater and landlubber life in his watercolor seascapes. His cartoon shellfish?whose pink pincers resemble those of a crayfish, not the asymmetrical claws of a real hermit crab?wears bandages after encountering a pointed shell ("too rough"), and poses playfully in front of a peacock-tail-shaped half shell ("too fancy"). Kalan and Abolafia supply plenty of good humor, but look to Megan McDonald's and S.D. Schindler's Is This a House for Hermit Crab? (Orchard, 1990) for scientific substance as well as a pleasing presentation of the same subject. Ages 4-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0688139485
• ISBN 13: 9780688139483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Abolafia Yossi