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About the SeriesMeet Crabby. This crab is a little bit grumpy, a little bit bored, and just plain . . . crabby! Plankton tries again and again to cheer Crabby up—with laugh-out-loud results!

JONATHAN FENSKE

is the author and illustrator of the leveled readers Woodward and McTwee, Love Is in the

Air, Guppy Up!, and A Pig, a Fox, and a Box, which was a 2016 Geisel Honor Book. He is also the author of three picture books, Barnacle Is Bored, its follow-up, Plankton Is Pushy, and I’m Fun Too! (A Classic LEGO Picture Book).

HELLO, CRABBY!5/1/2019

PB: 978-1-338-28150-7 • $4.99 RLB: 978-1-338-28151-4 • $15.99 EBK: 978-1-338-28152-1 • $4.99

LET’S PLAY, CRABBY!8/1/2019

PB: 978-1-338-28155-2 • $4.99 RLB: 978-1-338-28157-6 • $15.99 EBK: 978-1-338-28159-0 • $4.99

WAKE UP, CRABBY! 11/1/2019

PB: 978-1-338-28161-3 • $4.99 RLB: 978-1-338-28163-7 • $15.99 EBK: 978-1-338-28165-1 • $4.99

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ActivitiesCrabby is a very crabby crab. Do YOU ever feel crabby? What can make you feel this way?

Write your answer and draw a picture to share with your friends.

Plankton bakes Crabby a cake. What kind of cake would YOU bake for Crabby? What would your cake look like? How many layers would it have?

Draw a picture of your cake.

There are four crabs scuttling in this book! After reading Hello, Crabby!, can you name them all?

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