"kermit the hermit" is another book that i discovered thanks to james franco's horrible book "palo alto". the kid doing his community service at the library loved bill peet. i was disappointed with myself for having read none of his books though "the whingdingdilly" feels vaguely familiar, like i read it or one of my elementary teachers read it to my class.
so i decided to kick off my discovery of bill peet's works with "kermit the hermit" and i was glad i did. it was an adorable book!
kermit the hermit was a hermit crab and was definitely a "crab". he was not very nice or friendly and was a hoarder.
one day a dog tried to attack kermit. but a young boy saved him.
kermit was so grateful for the boy saving his life but he didn't know how to repay him. so kermit went out walking and discovered a treasure of gold coins in a sunken ship. he decided that the treasure would be how he could repaid the boy for saving his life! he then carried the treasure two coins at a time back to his cave.
however, though he had a way to repay the boy, kermit had a problem. he had to find the boy. he walked around sad because he could not find him when a pelican approached him. he told the pelican his problem and the pelican knew the boy! the pelican flew kermit to his house which was the poorest house in the neighborhood. kermit with the pelican's help decided to fly the coins two at a time and drop them down the family's chimney! the family, thanks to kermit, became rich!
so sweet right? and a great example of how helping others can be very rewarding!!
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