A rhyming introduction to Chadwick, a blue crab, and his many bird and water-living friends, who share the bay beside the sea.

Preschoolers and early readers will enjoy the rhyming story and colorful pictures in this introduction to Chadwick the Chesapeake Bay blue crab and his many friends: Bernie the Sea Gull, Toulouse the Canada Goose, Matilda Egret, Hector Spector the Jellyfish, Orville Oyster, and others.

As the story says:

Though Chadwick and his many friends

Are different as can be,

They live together happily

In a bay, beside the sea.