Where Is Little Fish?

by Lucy Cousins, Lucy Cousins (Illustrator)

Overview

Play hide-and-seek with Lucy Cousins’s Little Fish as the effervescent little guy finds clever cover beneath the flaps.

Is that Little Fish hiding behind the yellow coral? No, it’s stripy fish! How about inside the shell? That’s shelly fish, of course! Open up the treasure chest (hi, crab!) and peek behind the red coral (so that’s where curly whirly and twisty twirly went off to!). Children will leave no oyster shell uncracked and no clump of seaweed unexplored in their search for this bright and sprightly new friend from the creator of Maisy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763694869
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Series:	Little Fish
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	381,483
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Lucy Cousins is the creator of the beloved Maisy series. She is also the author-illustrator of the widely acclaimed Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year, as well as I’m the Best, Hooray for Fish!, Hooray for Birds!, and a picture book series about Little Fish.

Editorial Reviews

A board book should be brief to match a toddler's attention span, have humor that a young child can appreciate, and provide reasons for caregiver and child to linger over each page. Cousins, best known for the popular Maisy stories, scores on all counts here...Where is Little Fish? He should be on shelves serving young children everywhere.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

01/01/2018
PreS—Schools of friendly fish lead the way in introductions to a host of concepts, adjectives, and the vivid palette of a premier children's book artist. Children will delight in these titles that vibrate with bold, brilliant colors and a bit of sparkle and ring with wordsmith appreciation of language.—Daryl Grabarek, School Library Journal

School Library Journal

2018-01-22
Little Fish plays hide-and-seek.A board book should be brief to match a toddler's attention span, have humor that a young child can appreciate, and provide reasons for caregiver and child to linger over each page. Cousins, best known for the popular Maisy stories, scores on all counts here. On the first page, the smiling Little Fish speaks directly to readers with an invitation to play the familiar game of hide-and-seek. Six possible hiding places are concealed beneath flaps on the subsequent pages. By the second reading, young children will chime in with a satisfying "No" as each flap reveals a different sea creature. Finally, as in Cousins' earlier Hooray for Fish (2005), the final flap lifts to reveal Little Fish and Mom Fish sharing kisses. The six page turns and six flaps are just enough to ensure that board-book readers will say "read it again." The creatures have monikers such as "shelly fish" and "stripy fish," but even though these names are invented, their hiding places hint at real habitats and actual fish behavior. Each flap includes a small cutout to make it clear where it should be opened. This feature may help the rather thin flaps survive frequent tugs from eager little fingers.Where is Little Fish? He should be on shelves serving young children everywhere. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews