Chadwick the Crab
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1986
ISBN 0-87033-347-x Ages 5 and up
Chadwick is a happy Chesapeake Bay blue crab who enjoys a wide circle of friends – quiet Orville Oyster, Matilda (a fussy, near-sighted egret), Toulouse the Canada Goose, Bernie the Sea Gull and especially Esmerelda, the prettiest girl crab in the entire bay. But Chadwick yearns for adventure and decides that more than anything else he wants to be a star at the aquarium in Baltimore. This is the story of how one little crab realizes a very big dream.
Chadwick and the Garplegrungen
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1987
ISBN 0-87033-377-1 Ages 5 and up
What is that awful green and purple gunk bubbling up in the normally blue waters of the Chesapeake Bay? Chadwick the Crab and his friends call it garplegrungen; people call it pollution. Whatever its name, Chadwick decides he has to get rid of it. Dr. Mallard (that old quack) tells him it’s no use. But with the help of old and new friends, such as stately Baron von Heron and Belly Jeans, the shy flounder, Chadwick finds a way to save the Bay.
Chadwick’s Wedding
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1989
ISBN 0-87033-390-9 Age 5 and up
Wedding shells are ringing! Chadwick the Crab is getting married and everyone is preparing for the big event! Esmerelda is choosing her bridesmaids, Baron von Heron is writing the ceremony (in rhyme, of course), and Toulouse, the gourmet Canada goose, is baking a corn and eelgrass cake. But then, just as Chadwick begins to have second thoughts about marriage, Esmerelda disappears! Suddenly, the wedding of off and the search is on.
Chadwick Forever
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1993
ISBN 0-87033-450-6 Ages 5 and up
Chadwick the Crab and Bernie the Sea Gull are worried they’re going to lose a good friend forever. Hester, the Delmarva fox squirrel, has discovered a book telling her she’s on the endangered species list. Not only that, but there’s a mysterious monster lurking around Shady Creek. And all this happens just when Chadwick and Esmerelda are getting ready to welcome their big little family home.
Meet Chadwick and his Chesapeake Bay Friends
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1999
ISBN 0-87033-516-2 Ages 2 and up
Especially for the picture-book audience, Meet Chadwick introduces Chadwick, the Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and his many friends including Bernie the Sea Gull, Toulouse the Canada Goose, Matilda Egret, Hector Spector the Jellyfish and Orville Oyster. As the story goes:
Though Chadwick and his many friends Are different as can be, They live together happily In a bay, beside the sea.
Chadwick Sings: A Little Bay Music
By Val and Pam
Based on Priscilla Cummings’ Chadwick the Crab
Copyright by Valerie Leonhart Smalkin and Priscilla Cummings All ages
Val and Pam sing the story of Chadwick the Crab in fourteen delightful songs. Available only on tape.
*Honors for Chadwick*
Chadwick the Crab and Priscilla Cummings have been honored many times since the series began twenty years ago in 1986. But perhaps the most appreciated award was one Priscilla received in 2001 when she was named Celebrated Maryland Author by the Association for Childhood Education International who praised her “outstanding contributions to the field of children’s literature and ecology.”
NEW! Beetle Boddiker By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by Marcy Dunn Ramsey
Tidewater, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-87033-602-7 All ages
Beneath the back steps, by a rock in the shade, Beetle Boddiker lives in the house that he made. . . A cautious old beetle, he rarely leaves home. "The backyard is a jungle," he says. "I won't roam." But one day Beetle Boddiker finds the courage to cross the backyard to see his brother and the adventures begin.
Santa Claws, The Christmas Crab
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by Marcy Dunn Ramsey
Tidewater, 2006
ISBN-10: 0-87033-576-6
ISBN-13 978-0-87033-576-1 All ages
Travel beneath the Chesapeake Bay where Spud, a feisty young blue crab, hates to nap. Waking his underwater friends, Spud launches a rollicking Christmas Eve party that is interrupted by an unexpected traveler in need of Spud’s help. Can Spud help bring Christmas to the Bay?
Chesapeake 1-2-3
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by David Aiken
Tidewater Publishers, 2002
ISBN 0-87033-542-1 Ages 2 and up
Chesapeake 1-2-3 introduces children to numbers by using special sights found in and around the Bay. As a companion book to the popular Chesapeake ABC, this book will delight youngsters with its clever rhymes and whimsical drawings.
Do you know how to count? Do you enjoy the Bay? Take a look inside this book And count the Chesapeake way!
Chesapeake Rainbow
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by David Aiken
Tidewater Publishers, 2004
ISBN 0-87033-556-1 Ages 2 and up
Chesapeake Rainbow helps youngsters learn their colors. The book is a bright and wonderful companion book to the popular Chesapeake ABC and Chesapeake 1-2-3.
Blue is the color of the water in the Bay, And blue is the color of a perfect day. The heron that we call Great Blue is blue. The stripe down a crab’s leg? It’s blue, too. Blue is a color of the Chesapeake Bay. Let’s think of another that we see everyday. . .
Toulouse: The Story of a Canada Goose
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1995
ISBN0-87033-460-3 Ages 5 and up
Toulouse the Canada Goose has been getting into mischief ever since he was a little yellow gosling. But nothing compares with the trouble he finds on his first fall migration to Maryland. Separated from his family, he is left to find his own way south with a lost snow goose, who becomes a special friend for life. Theirs is a love story that children and grownups alike will treasure.
Oswald and the Timberdoodles
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1990
ISBN 0-87033-411-5 Age 3 and up
(Out of print)
Oswald is a great blue heron with a great big problem. He can’t straighten his long neck. This creates trouble when it becomes Oswald’s turn to guard the marsh. Unable to see over the tall grass, he is banished to a far corner of Shady Creek. There he meets a group of friendly little birds, the timderdoodles, who recognize Oswald’s special talent: forecasting the weather. Only after Oswald’s timely warning about a tornado do the other herons finally accept Oswald for who he is.
Sid and Sal’s Famous Channel Marker Diner
By Priscilla Cummings
Illustrated by A.R. Cohen
Tidewater Publishers, 1991
ISBN0-87033-423-9 Ages 5 and up
(Out of print)
For years Sid and Sal, two typical ospreys, nested on top of a dead pine tree at the edge of a peaceful cove. When their tree was knocked down to make way for the Cozy Cove Condos, Sid and Sal were fortunate to find a new home on a channel marker at the mouth of Shady Creek. The channel marker was so spacious, in fact, that they decided to open a restaurant there, too. They called it “The Channel Marker Diner.”
