Smile, Pout-Pout Fish

by Deborah Diesen, Dan Hanna (Illustrator)

Overview

A short and sweet mini-adventure especially created to introduce the youngest guppies to the popular Pout-Pout Fish

No need to be worried! No need to be sad! Toddlers will love swimming along with the Pout-Pout Fish as he turns little frowns into big smiles.

With just one line of text per page, this simple, 12-page board book will send Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna's much-loved Pout-Pout Fish flippering and swishing into the hearts and minds of very young children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374370848
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Series:	Pout-Pout Fish Adventure Series
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	195,377
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Deborah Diesen has worked as a bookseller, bookkeeper, and reference librarian. Her first book, The Pout-Pout Fish, was a New York Times bestseller and one of Time magazine’s Top 10 Children’s Books of the Year. She lives in Michigan with her family.

Dan Hanna has over ten years’ experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Camarillo, California.

Editorial Reviews

11/25/2013
The “glum-glum” star of The Pout-Pout Fish appears in his first original board book, which touches on basic emotions. A straightforward rhyme guides the story, as the frowny blue fish interacts with a wormlike creature that pokes out from holes in the seabed. “No need to be worried./ No need to be sad,” Diesen writes as the worm disappears from one hole and pops up in another, leaving the pout-pout fish with tears welling up in his eyes. Hanna’s mixed-media artwork makes each of the fish’s emotions crystal clear as the book moves toward a happy resolution: “What a smile, Mr. Fish!” Ages 1–4. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

This simplified version of Deisen and Hanna's The Pout-Pout Fish (2008) is appropriate for babies and toddlers . . . Simple and sweet, this tale offers the lesson that sometimes, all that's needed for a turnaround in mood is some cheer and encouragement to change our perspective. The clean, uncluttered illustrations are kept simple, except for the pout-pout fish's features, which are delightfully expressive.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2013-12-24
This simplified version of Diesen and Hanna's The Pout-Pout Fish (2008) is appropriate for babies and toddlers.Brief, rhyming text tells the story of a sullen fish cheered up with a kiss. A little pink sea creature pokes his head out of a hole in the sea bottom to give the gloomy fish some advice: "Smile, Mr. Fish! / You look so down // With your glum-glum face / And your pout-pout frown." He explains that there's no reason to be worried, scared, sad or mad and concludes: "How about a smooch? / And a cheer-up wish? // Now you look happy: / What a smile, Mr. Fish!" Simple and sweet, this tale offers the lesson that sometimes, all that's needed for a turnaround in mood is some cheer and encouragement to change our perspective. The clean, uncluttered illustrations are kept simple, except for the pout-pout fish's features, which are delightfully expressive. Little ones will easily recognize and likely try to copy the sad, scared and angry looks that cross the fish's face.An upbeat early book on feelings with a simple storyline that little ones will respond to. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews