9th March Crab Meat Day

Over 1.5 million tons of crabs are eaten all over the globe every year and I guess that is why there is a day to celebrate that fact. However there is no day set aside to just celebrate live crabs which I think is sad, given how many children's picture books feature crabs. So here, this day is about crabs, not the 'meat' they provide seafood connoisseurs with.

While there are some amazing factual books in the nonfiction section of the library (595.3) there are also so many crab stories. Probably the best known are Eric Carle's and Julia Donaldson's books about hermit crabs, but you will be surprised to see just how often a crab features as a main character.  

See:

• A House for Hermit Crab  by Eric Carle

• Sharing a Shell  by Julia Donaldson

• Herman Crab by Peter Helliar

• Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab by Paula Bowles

• Clem and Crab  by Fiona Lumbers

• Tip Tap! Went the Crab by Tim Hopgood

• Don't Worry Little Crab  by Chris Haughton

• I'm Fabulous Crab  by Nicki Greenberg

• Koko and the Coconut by Turia Pitt

• The Crab Ballet by Renee La Tulippe

• Crab Moon  by Ruth Horowitz

• One is a Snail Ten is a Crab by April Pulley Sayre

• Fish and Crab  by Marianna Coppo

• The Selfish Crab by Anya Glazer

• Crab Cake  by Andrea Tsurumi

• How the Crab Got His Claws by Rosie Dickins

• Mr Clownfish, Miss Anemone and the Hermit Crab  by Sean E. Avery

• Crabbing with Dad by Paul Seden

• Joshua and the Two Crabs  by Joshua Button

• Hector the Hermit Crab  by Katie Boyce

• This is Crab by Harriet Evans

• Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway

• Bad Crab by Amelia McInerney

• Looking for Crabs  by Bruce Whatley

• Old Shell New Shell  by Helen Ward

• Basghetti Spaghetti by Susanne Vettiger

and two fun graphic series

• A Crabby Book by Jonathan Fenske

• Crab and Snail by Beth Ferry

Once you associate crab with a favourite character you will care less about celebrating by eating crab.

I love this acronym. I'm going to make some badges to give children I see reading!