A fun, fishy cautionary tale!
A classic picture book, now with a fabulous new cover design, illustrated by Korky Paul, who's sold over 2.5 million copies of his books worldwide. With a rhythmical text, it's a story children will love to hear over and over again. Ages: 0-5yrs.
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A fun, fishy cautionary tale!
A classic picture book, now with a fabulous new cover design, illustrated by Korky Paul, who's sold over 2.5 million copies of his books worldwide. With a rhythmical text, it's a story children will love to hear over and over again. Ages: 0-5yrs.
Description
Deep in the ocean lives a fish whose wishes come true! He wishes for all sorts of crazy things - a castle, a car, and even fine clothes to wear. But he is a rather foolish fish and one day he wishes to be just like all the other fish . . . perhaps this will be the one wish he wishes he never wished!The rhythmical text is great to read aloud and Korky Paul's illustrations take to you to a crazy underwater world. With its neat punch line, this isa book that children will just love to hear (and join in with) over and over again.
Critic Reviews
“'Wonderful, with amazing underwater scenes really supporting the rhythmic text in which wishes, as always, are badly used.'Books For Keeps”
Wonderful, with amazing underwater scenes really supporting the rhythmic text in which wishes, as always, are badly used.'Books For KeepsExtremely witty, this clever picture book will have children laughing out loud as they read about the amazing wishful fish...Brought to life by superb underwater drawings, this is bound to become a favourite.'Practical Parenting
About the Author
Korky Paul is illustrator of the best-selling Winnie the Witch series. He studied art at the Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years working for an advertising agency in Cape Town. In 1976 as Korky puts it he "fled for Europe" and got a job illustrating and designing educational books in Greece. He then spent some time working for an advertising agency in London and Los Angeles and then studied film animation at Cal Arts inCalifornia. Korky Paul is married with two children. He works in Oxford but spends the summer living it up in Greece.
Deep in the ocean lives a fish whose wishes come true! He wishes for all sorts of crazy things - a castle, a car, and even fine clothes to wear. But he is a rather foolish fish and one day he wishes to be just like all the other fish . . . perhaps this will be the one wish he wishes he never wished!The rhythmical text is great to read aloud and Korky Paul's illustrations take to you to a crazy underwater world. With its neat punch line, this is a book that children will just love to hear (and join in with) over and over again.
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