The Crab That Played with the Sea

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"The Crab That Played with the Sea" is one of Rudyard Kipling’s whimsical Just So Stories, telling a myth-like tale that explains how the sea’s tides and a once-powerful crab came to be as they are.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Just So Story
children's story
short story
author Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED
collection Just So Stories NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
explains the origin of the tides
why crabs are small
why the sea goes out and comes in
firstPublicationYear 1902
genre children's literature
fantasy
mythic fiction
hasCharacter Pau Amma the Crab NERFINISHED
the Daughter of the Man NERFINISHED
the Eldest Magician NERFINISHED
the Man
the Sea NERFINISHED
hasIllustrationsBy Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED
hasMoralElement consequences of selfishness
importance of balance in nature
hasTargetAgeRange early readers
middle childhood
includedIn various children's anthologies
intendedAudience children
language English
literaryStyle myth-like
whimsical
mainCharacter Pau Amma NERFINISHED
the Daughter of the Man NERFINISHED
the Eldest Magician NERFINISHED
the Man
narrativeForm etiological tale
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalMedium print
originalPublisher Macmillan & Co. NERFINISHED
partOfSeries Just So Stories for Little Children NERFINISHED
setting the primordial world
the seashore
theme human relationship with nature
order imposed on chaos
power and responsibility

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