What happens when a crab loses a leg? It grows a new one! This is just one of many surprising facts children will discover as they enter the weird and watery world of these amazing creatures. In Crawling Crabs, large, colorful photos and clear, grade-appropriate text will engage emergent readers as they learn about the natural habitat, physical characteristics, diet, and behavior of these unusual and unique underwater invertebrates. Crawling Crabs is part of Bearport's No Backbone! The World of Invertebrates series.
Appealing introductions. Each overview gets right to the point with simple sentences that define and describe the animals' features. To reinforce the written definition, a splashy full-color photograph appears on the facing page. Although Lunis points out that the term "sea star" is preferred over starfish in Prickly Sea Stars, Gooey Jellyfish states that "jellyfish" is still used even though jellies are definitely not fish. All in all, these are fun and useful sources of information for young scientists and beach goers.
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