Kiss, Kiss, 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 New York Times-bestselling Pout-Pout Fish.

Swim along with Mr. Fish as he shows his friends just how much he loves them.

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:	9780374301903
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/15/2015
Series:	Pout-Pout Fish Adventure Series
Pages:	14
Sales rank:	82,029
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	1 - 4 Years

About the Author

Deborah Diesen is the New York Times bestselling author of The Pout-Pout Fish, named by Time Magazine as one of the Ten Best Children’s Books of 2008, and The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark. Diesen grew up in Midland, Michigan, and started writing poems at a young age. She has worked as a bookseller and a librarian, and now works for a small nonprofit organization, but her greatest joy comes from writing for children. She lives with her family in Grand Ledge, Michigan.

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 Oxnard, California.

Editorial Reviews

2015-12-22
The Pout-Pout Fish brand expands. None of the fish in this sea look like anything living outside the cartoon-cute world of Pout-Pout Fish, but that's just the beginning of the problems with this board-book addition to the franchise. The Pout-Pout Fish on the cover and every page of this offering doesn't look pouty at all. Slightly bemused, a bit surprised, maybe—but definitely not pouty. In fact, all of the cartoony creatures swimming in this fantasy sea share the same bug-eyed, slightly kissy-face expression. The rhyming message is that there are many ways to share it—a wave, a smile, holding hands (or fins), making silly faces, a hug, or a kiss—but there's only one thing to call it: love. What is disturbing is that Mr. Fish seems to have only one choice—to accept love however it is offered. Giving children (or little fish) permission to trust their own feelings might be a more appropriate message. If the point is to help children understand and accept their feelings, this effort is a failure. If the point is to sell Pout-Pout product, it might succeed. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews