Chadwick the Crab and Bernie the Sea Gull are worried that they’re going to lose a good friend forever. Hester, a Delmarva fox squirrel, has discovered a book telling her she is on the endangered species list. Not only that, a mysterious monster is lurking around Shady Creek. All this happens just when Chadwick and Esmerelda are getting ready to welcome their family home.
Priscilla Cummings is the author of the Chadwick the Crab series and fourteen other picture books, as well as eight novels for older children. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland. A. R. Cohen lives in Jarrettsville, Maryland, and spends his time doing art and being a beekeeper.