Barry the Fish with Fingers: Read & Listen Edition

by Sue Hendra

Overview

Kids will want to read, listen, and laugh along with this ebook complete with audio narration. Life under the sea can be as dull as dishwater, until Barry arrives, that is. See, Barry is no ordinary fish—he's a fish with fingers! And fingers mean finger puppets, finger painting, knitting, counting to ten, tickling, and all sorts of fun things. It isn't long before all of the other fish want fingers, too. Life under the sea will never be the same again. . . . 
Sue Hendra's hilarious text and bright, bold, colorful art will have youngsters begging to read this story again and again.

This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307938336
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	11/15/2010
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

SUE HENDRA graduated from the University of Brighton, in England, with a degree in illustration. She has illustrated over seventy books for children, including Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli by Barbara Jean Hicks. When she's not busy making books, Sue helps run an art club for children at two of her local museums. Sue Hendra lives in Brighton, where she loves to swim, explore the surrounding countryside, and eat fish-finger sandwiches, much to Barry's chagrin.

Editorial Reviews

The fish in the sea are bored. There's nothing to do but swim, swim, swim. Until Barry shows up, that is. Barry is a fish with...fingers! Wide-eyed with exuberance and brandishing ten bright-orange fingers stuck on like perpetual jazz hands, Barry is just what the ocean needs. With his fingers he can do many new things. Play with finger puppets! Knit a scarf! Type a letter! Tickle! And perhaps the most important of all-warn other fish of danger. When a large box suddenly falls into the water, Barry's pointing finger (and accompanying shout) saves the day. What is in that large box? Pirate Jack's Tasty Fish Sticks, of course. Now all the fish can have fingers too! A bit of a plodding plot aside, it's no wonder Barry is able to cheer everyone up; Hendra, wielding bright gouaches on playfully flat compositions, has created one impossibly endearing little fish. (Readers would do well not to explore the bioethics of the fishes' new digits too closely, though.) (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews