Pagoo
by Holling, Clancy Holling
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG to VG+
- Seller
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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
"Little Pagurus--"Pagoo" for short--came from an egg the size of a pencil dot. He drifted on the surface of the sea like a tiny fleck of foam, yet he would become a two-fisted Hermit Crab--if luck was with him. Under water, Pagoo's glassy body was almost invisible. His large eyes looked like eyes, but the rest of him was a fuzzy blur because as yet he had no claws or legs. Pagoo found bits of floating food small enouth to eat, and he grew. He molted by kicking off his plastic armor, as do his crustacean relatives such as Shrimps and Lobsters. Each molting found him a little larger, with a few more improvements added. Looking more like a Hermit Crab, at last he could swim no longer. He settled to the bottom of a tide pool near shore, and walked with legs. But now his armor covered only part of him. Thus Instinct set Pagoo to hunting shelter in crowded Tide-Pool Town. He could not know that his odd body was shaped to fit a particular home built by a creature he had never met." Illustrated by Mr. and Mrs. Holling.
Synopsis
An intricate study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, a her-mit crab.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stillman Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 954SB
- Title
- Pagoo
- Author
- Holling, Clancy Holling
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth with Yellow lettering and a Yellow Hermit Crab.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG to VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1957
- Pages
- 87
- Size
- Tall 4 to.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Twenty brilliant, full-color plates and exquisitely detailed marginal drawings illustrate a book that is a treasure to read and to own.
Terms of Sale
Stillman Books
About the Seller
Stillman Books
About Stillman Books
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.