- Crabs, Stories in rhyme, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness.
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Spare, effortless, earnest and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Bill Peet
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Houghton Mifflin, Deutsch
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780395296073
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