Little Crab: Finger Puppet Book

When i was pregnant with A, i watched a stop animation movie with my husband. The whole movie was filmed by manually moving the puppets. The first scene of the movie had a finger puppet book. I fail to recall the name of the movie. But it was pretty impressive. That movie introduced me to the concept of  finger puppet books. I immediately started looking for those but found none in India. Then searched on amazon.com, saw a lot of them available there. I thought i will ask one of my friends in US to get those for me. Luckily, after a while i saw few finger puppet books were available on amazon india. As soon as my eyes saw that, my fingers automatically pressed the keys to order those :) and this book was the first finger puppet book i landed up with :)

This book has a nice crab finger puppet. A loves the crab. Rhyming words and a moving adorable puppet makes it super interesting to be read. A very nice story.
There are few images (like of a fish, boat), which got cut while they inserted the puppet. Its a very small book, perfect for the little hands. But a little bigger version to preserve the necessary images would have been better.

Here is the link:
Little Crab: Finger Puppet Book

At the point when i got this book, there were hardly any other puppet books available in India. Now there are few. You can checkout the following:

Mary Had a Little Lamb (Little Learners Finger Puppet Book) : I own this one too. I prefer crab book over this one as i felt the lamb is a little too small. Also, crab book has a very nice story. This one has the rhyme.

Very Hungry Caterpillar Finger Puppet Book (The Very Hungry Caterpillar): Don't buy this one. Check my review of this book for details.

I plan to buy A more finger puppet books soon.


Verdict: Buy at least one finger puppet book for your little one. Its a super fun way to play and learn. Crab book is good too but could have been better.