Brief rhymes for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by longer explanatory text, present features of Maryland.

Bored with living by the edge of the sea, Crusty the Crab decides to try living on land.

Chadwick, a Chesapeake Bay crab, yearns for adventure and finds it in a most dangerous form, prompting the birds and marine animals who share the Bay to come to

Combines a natural history of the Atlantic blue crab with an historical and ecological study of Chesapeake Bay and a chronicle of the commercial crabber's year