Bella the Blue Crab is a wonderful story of a brave little she-crab who helps save the Chesapeake Bay. Bella is a positive role model who enjoys helping her fellow sea creatures with acts of kindness and bravery. Bella's story comes alive through the beautifully animated pictures of the Chesapeake Bay and coastal towns along the Eastern Shore.

Two blue crabs feed together, mate, and see their offspring grow up to continue the life cycle.

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 his rescue on the mainland.

This book has been written to give anyone wanting to enjoy blue crabs with family and friends a step-by-step instruction guide to a very exciting family meal and celebration. I have been blessed to be surrounded by family members living in the Greater Hampton Roads Virginia and Northeastern Maryland regions of the United States. These family members have passed down from generation to generation the popular steps in preparing blue crabs for large groups of family and friends. While being in the military for over twenty years, I was also blessed to be stationed close to the Gulf of Mexico areas of Alabama and Florida, where I found out that the love for blue crabs at family gatherings and friendly festivals were in full effect just as it was in the Virginia and Maryland areas. Many of my family members come together on special occasions and enjoy blue crabs cooked with other ingredients that make up a country boil. This book has been written to give anyone wanting to enjoy blue crabs with family and friends a step-by-step instruction guide to a very exciting family meal and celebration. This book will give you all of the instructions that you will need to put on the best blue crab event that you can ever imagine. No matter how experienced your group is with preparing and eating blue crabs, this small and easy-to-read book will not let you down.

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