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Pagoo / by Holling Clancy Holling ; illustrated by the author and Lucille Webster Holling.

Holling, Holling Clancy. (Author). Holling, Lucille Webster, (illustrator.).

Summary:

From the moment of his birth, Pagoo the hermit crab learns to rely on his "instinct" in order to survive to adulthood in his tide pool home.

Record details

ISBN: 0395539641 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780395539644 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0395068266
ISBN: 9780395068267
Physical Description: 86 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1985.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Pagoo might be a hermit crab -- Shifting tides and changing hides -- Pagoo is a hermit crab! -- At the ringside -- A ride and a fall far, far from home -- A starfish, and a few barnacles -- Room and board, travel included -- Around snail cousins' rock -- In, out, up with traveling towers -- Houses are scarce in Tide-pool town -- A concrete tile can crawl both ways -- Hermit house from an ancient jungle -- The grotto of eating trees -- Among the crabs, a shy masked lady -- Pagoo takes a shell -- keeps it, too -- Death trap! -- A fright, a frolic, and a farewell -- Down to the depths of deep hole -- Can this be the end of Pagoo? -- Endless rhythm of an old, old sea.