A Hermit Crab's Shell

Animal Homes

by B.J. Best

Hermit crabs do not grow their own shells, but instead use discarded shells from other animals such as snails. Of course, as the hermit crab grows, the shell does not. A hermit crab's life, then, is a succession of finding bigger and bigger shells to use as its home. This book will show kids that process through simple language and intriguing photographs.

24 pages, Library Binding

Published July 30, 2018

About the author

B.J. Best is the author of three books of poetry: But Our Princess Is in Another Castle (Rose Metal Press, 2013), State Sonnets (sunnyoutside, 2009), and Birds of Wisconsin (New Rivers Press, 2010), winner of the Many Voices Project competition and an Outstanding Achievement in Poetry award from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has also published three chapbooks with Centennial Press, most recently Drag: Twenty Short Poems about Smoking, as well as numerous poems in literary magazines, including Denver Quarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Pleiades, Quarterly West, and Sentence. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and is an Assistant Professor of English at Carroll University. He has twice been a finalist to serve as Wisconsin's Poet Laureate, and serves on the editorial board for Verse Wisconsin.