Text-to-Self Connection:"A House for Hermit Crab" is a cute little story that definitely relates to me! I am always looking for things and such to decorate my house with. Every time I see something, I want it just like the Hermit Crab. I am constantly on the look out for new items to grab as well as bargain items to refresh old ones. Sometimes I begin to wonder if I am a hoarder with all the decor, but I really enjoy being crafty and decorating plain items and making them new.

I read this to my little brothers and we loved the story! It was very cute that a hermit crab decided to decorate his house with other little critters that eventually became his friends (he brought them with their permission of course). And when it was time for him to move out of his shell and leave his friends behind, the friends on his old shell were not forgotten. Another little hermit crab moved into his old shell and the cycle could begin again for the main hermit crab.

At the beginning of the year, Hermit Crab finds his current shell is too small. He ventures out in search of a new one, only to discover that it is drab. Carle takes the reader along throughout the months, as Hermit Crab decorates and finds protection for his new house. By the end of the year, the shell has become too small again, forcing him to make a significant decision. Neo has long been an Eric Carle fan and liked the colours and less than mainstream illustrating.

A House for Hermit Crab is a wonderful story. Hermit Crab realizes he has outgrown his shell and has to find a new one. It is scary to have to leave the safety of your home and find a new home. Hermit Crab knows he must find a new home straight away because his home keeps him save in the open sea. He does accomplish finding a home that fits just right very quickly. This home even looks like his old home. However, he decides it's plain and goes on a quest in the dangerous, wide open sea in search...

My students are reading all about habitats, so this is a great book for that topic. It is very cute!

A very fun book about a hermit crab who is trying to decorate his shell. A creative book that promotes creativity.

This repetitive story about a hermit crab moving into a new shell has a great rhythm and also provides opportunities to practice counting and identification of new creatures.Everyone here really liked this and I think we'll soon add it to our home library.

This is a lovely story with beautiful illustrations of ocean floor life. A hermit crab is looking for a new place to live, the shell he finds is quite plain but he soon makes it look nice. This is an interesting and informative read with some sea creature information in the back pages.Read on open library.

I really like this writer the illustrations are amazing to me but my daughter didn't like it that much

What a brilliant way to explain symbiotic relationships in the ocean. Dig it!

Hermit Crab has to get a new house after he outgrows the latest. Then he goes around and finds plants and animals who are willing to live with him and he decorates his shell with them. Sea anemones, coral, snails and lanternfish are some of the things he decorates his shell with. The story takes place over a year and by the end he needs a new house.This is Eric Carle artwork as we love it. It's lovely. This is a nice beginning story for kids. He throws in the months of the year with fun sea life...

Hermit Crab has outgrown his shell and needs to go looking for a new one. He finally found a shell that fit, but it was quite plain. Throughout the next year, Hermit Crab found sea anemones, a starfish, coral, a snail, a sea urchin, a lanternfish. They would help decorate, protect, clean, and light up his new house. However, November rolled by and Hermit Crab’s shell was feeling too small. He gave his beautiful home to a smaller crab that was looking for a shell. Hermit Crab went looking for a b...

A HOUSE FOR HERMIT CRAB is a charming story about the habits of a hermit crab, with a subtheme : the breaking away from the old and venturing out into the new.When Hermit Crab outgrows his old shell, he has to find a bigger place in which to dwell. His new home is old and very plain. But, bit by bit, anemone and starfish and crusty coral come along to adorn it; snail keep it clean, sea urchin (prickly and fierce) love to protect it and lanternfish light it up. Hermit is a happy crab. Until his c...

In an incredibly engaging and wonderful story, Hermit Crab realizes he has outgrown his shell home and begins the journey to find a new one. He quickly finds his new home but things it is a bit bland and needs some decorations to make it unique. He travels the ocean floor and meets new friends along the way as they help him create an original masterpiece of a home. The book goes through the sequence of the months of the year, a great tool for younger readers, and by November, Hermit Crab has out...

What's up with August? The book was following a pattern with Hermit picking a new item each month to decorate his home with ... except the pattern was broken in August and then resumed again in September, haha. Ages: 4 - 8**Like my reviews? Then you should follow me! Because I have hundreds more just like this one. With each review, I provide a Cleanliness Report, mentioning any objectionable content I come across so that parents and/or conscientious readers (like me) can determine beforehand wh...

A House for Hermit Crab is another example of Eric Carle's incredible ability to craft a simple yet meaningful story and let the beautiful illustrations be the star of the book. The book begins with a hermit crab who is growing up and has become too big for his current home-his shell. Luckily, he easily finds a new shell to live in, but he has decided that this new shell is much too simple for his liking and sets out to decorate his new home. On his journey, he meets many other sea creatures, su...

An excellent allegory for change. Eric Carle is a legend.

F has several mini Eric Carle board books that were given to her as a set, and this is one of them. It's cute, although in many ways it seems reductive of Leo Lionni's Swimmy, in that it's about an ocean creature wandering around and observing other ocean creatures. Also, all the Eric Carle books start to blur together after a while for me. Still, F enjoyed this, especially counting the fish (she loves fish).ETA 2021: F rediscovered this book today. She still likes it a lot.

Yesterday, I went to an exhibit of Eric Carle’s artwork, and they had many of his books available to read, so I read a few. I was surprised that this one was my favorite. It tells a story of a hermit crab who encounters various sea creatures, and invites them to live on his shell. But ultimately [spoiler] he outgrows the shell. He passes it on to a small homeless hermit crab, and as he moves into his new shell, he’s already thinking of how he might decorate it. The story does a wonderful job of

Genre: FictionGrade Level: Early Primary; AR level: 3.7Eric Carle is one of my favorite authors. I love his illustrations and the ease of reading his stories. I have used this book in the daycare setting and we created our own Hermit crabs with random art supplies. It is a great book for a read aloud for younger children and since it is a 3.7 AR level, it would be great for Upper Primary grades. I like that it explains the ocean life of the creatures he used to decorate his shell with. It's very...