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The Pout-Pout Fish
is a rhyming children's picture book published by Farrar
Straus Giroux. The text of the story is
by yours truly, and the wonderful art is by Dan Hanna.
The Pout-Pout Fish tells the tale of Mr. Fish, who spends his days
with his fish-face stuck in a permanent pout. Though his pals try to
cheer him up, they have little success. But as the story swims along,
an unexpected friend arrives on the scene and helps Mr. Fish to discover that
glum isn't really his destiny.
The Pout-Pout Fish spent two
weeks
on The New York Times Book Review picture book best sellers list and
was named one of the 2008
Top Ten Children's Books by Time magazine. It was also
chosen to be the 2009
Michigan Reads selection. In addition, it was the 2008 Southern
California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA) Picture Book Award
Winner, and it was a 2009
Indies Choice Best New Picture Book Honor Book. The Pout-Pout
Fish is also included in the 2009 Bank Street College
Best Children's Books of the Year list.
For more Pout-Pout info, including story time materials, curriculum
suggestions, a cootie-catcher, and You Tube links, click here.
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The Barefooted, Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade,
illustrated by Tracy
Dockray, is a funny, rhyming picture
book. It features fed-up babies
who band together to protest baths, bibs, belly kisses and more.
The
book is a wonderful baby shower or new
baby gift. The story is fun and
silly, but it has a sweet, sentimental ending, with a reminder that babies
don’t stay babies for long.
It’s also great fun for story times. When I read it to groups, I bring along a
“protest sign” that says “We Won’t!”, and I have the kids join in with me on
the recurring “We Won’t!”s.
Booklist
says it's "a great early read-aloud, with a thumping, rhythmic text that
kids will want to hear many times over."
Publishers
Weekly says, "Diesen gets the we're-not-gonna-take-it tone
exactly right."
And School
Library Journal declares the book "great fun"!
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