🦊 Pip

Book 41 of the series

Cover of Pip and the Fiddler at the Edge

Pip and the Fiddler at the Edge

A tiny crab with one very large claw is working all alone — until Pip arrives at the water's edge and listens carefully enough to understand.

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Ages
3-7
Reading level
Grade 1
Length
746 words
An illustration from Pip and the Fiddler at the Edge

How it begins

“Copper light pours across the saltmarsh. Pip steps off the dry path, and the soft mud presses up between careful paws. The backpack buckle catches the last of the sun.”

Children will love

  • •A copper saltmarsh at golden hour, and a fiddler crab waving one huge claw that no one else can see
  • •Pip catching sunlight in a small mirror and skipping it clear across the water to answer a silent signal
  • •A single smooth pebble left at Pip's paw — proof that, at last, someone understood