{"id":330,"date":"2019-04-12T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=330"},"modified":"2019-03-25T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:57:31","slug":"the-crab-alphabet-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-crab-alphabet-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crab Alphabet Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Crab Alphabet Book<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Jerry\u00a0Pallotta; illus by Tom Leonard
\n32 pages; ages 3-7
\nCharlesbridge, 2019<\/p>\n

themes:<\/strong> alphabet, arthropods, diversity<\/p>\n

A is for Arrow Crab. This skinny creature with the arrow-shaped head and body is an ocean crab.<\/em><\/p>\n

This book is filled with crabs: skinny crabs and fat crabs, red crabs and blue crabs. Some crabs are huge \u2013 measuring 13 feet from toe to toe \u2013 and others are tiny. There are fiddler crabs that don\u2019t play the fiddle, and crabs that look like they\u2019re\u00a0 wearing mittens.<\/span><\/p>\n

They may look very different from each other, but all crabs have ten legs \u2013 even though the front two end in claws.<\/p>\n

What I like<\/del> love about this book:<\/strong> I like the note from the crabs at the beginning of the book: \u201cWe crabs are tired of books about cute penguins, proud tigers, colorful butterflies, and other favorite animals\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I like the note from the crabs at the end of the book which explains that the horseshoe crab may have \u201ccrab\u201d in its name, but it\u2019s not a crab! \u201cWe didn\u2019t want our own book because we\u2019re selfish,\u201d the crabs write. \u201cWe\u2019re shellfish!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And I really like the notes the crabs write throughout the book \u2013 tidbits of information about regeneration of lost limbs, molting, and blood color. Bluish-green, if you must know. Great illustrations paired with fun and breezy text makes you want to linger over each page.<\/p>\n

Head over to Archimedes Notebook<\/a> for some beyond-the-book activities.<\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 Sue Heavenrich <\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Crab Alphabet Book by Jerry\u00a0Pallotta; illus by Tom Leonard 32 pages; ages 3-7 Charlesbridge, 2019 themes: alphabet, arthropods, diversity A is for Arrow Crab. This skinny creature with the arrow-shaped head and body is an ocean crab. This book is filled with crabs: skinny crabs and fat crabs, red crabs and blue crabs. Some … <\/p>\n

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