Is This a House for a Hermit Crab?

by Megan McDonald

Book Overview

Follow a hermit crab on the perilous journey to replace his outgrown shell in this classic picture book by the author of the popular Judy Moody and Stink series. Hermit Crab has outgrown his shell,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531070417
• ISBN13: 9780531070413
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

Hermit crab classroom experience

I am a first grade teacher who has hermit crabs as a class pet. My students love books about hermit crabs, both fiction and nonfiction. Although this book is similar to Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab, I still really like it and am very glad I purchased it for my class!

Love the Visuals in this one

You can tell that a lot of work went into the beautiful illustrations. They are absolutely beautiful. As far as the story goes, its decent. A crab needs a new house and tries a few houses out, finding them flawed in one way or another. Then all of a sudden there's a plot twist and the crab is being hunted by its aquatic enemy. Somehow the slow thing outruns the predator fish and hides in an empty shell. The shell is so comfortable that after the fish is gone the crab declares the shell its new home. A plot twist in a book this short. Who'd have thought?

great book for elementary school students!

I've used this book with first and third grade students that are studying needs of animals and animal homes. The students love the predictability of the hermit crab's sounds. It opens up the discussion to habitats and why animals need certain characteristics in their homes. Great book!

Gentle little hermit crab searches the beach for a new home.

Simple, sweet story of a little hermit crab who has outgrown his shell and crawls, "scritch, scratch," along the beach in search of a new home. He tries out a variety of items; including a tin can, which is too noisy and a plastic bucket, which is too big. He becomes entangled in a net and is chased by a pricklepine fish before he finally finds just the right home and "snuggles" in. Beautiful illustrations! My 2-year-old and I both loved this book, and we are now the proud new owners of a pet hermit crab