John Feierabend adapted this telling of the crabfish (a crab or a lobster) from an old tale which can be traced back 600 years, and 400 years as a song.  Vincent Nguyen’s large paintings colorfully illustrate the song, which is reproduced on the last page.  The tale is about a man who’s wife got sick and asked him to get her a crabfish.  He hurried out in the night to get her one.  When he brought it to her, she leaned in to smell and it pinched it on the nose.  She called to her husband, but it had already pinched him on the ear!  The moral: If you desire a crabfish, cook it first!  In a note at the beginning of the book, John Feierabend mentions a website where the song may be downloaded in order to hear the melody.