The Crab and Its Mother

by Avianus

Versions of The Crab and Its Mother include:

• "Of the two Creuyſſes", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "An Old Crab and a Young", part of "Fable CCXXI and CCXXII", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Crab and its Mother", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Two Crabs", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)
• "The Crab and His Mother", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)