You Can Find the Class Pet, Pout-Pout Fish! (Pout-Pout Fish Reader, Level 1)

by Deborah Diesen, Dan Hanna (Illustrator)

Overview

Our favorite fish is on the hunt for the class pet!

Mr. Fish’s class has a pet, but one day the pet isn’t in its cage. Where did he go? The whole class is about to pout! Will they be able to work together to bring the pet home?

You Can Find the Class Pet, Pout-Pout Fish! is a paperback Level 1 Beginning Reader about patience, teamwork, and classroom fun that features the characters from the New York Times–bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series by Deborah Diesen with illustrations from Dan Hanna.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374391034
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Series:	Pout-Pout Fish Adventure Series
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	1,137,364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 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 Oxnard, California.

Editorial Reviews

"This will delight young readers." —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

07/01/2023

PreS-Gr 1—Mr. Fish's class pet has escaped from its cage and is missing. "Where did he go? How do we find him?" the students ask one another. "We will find him," promises Mr. Fish, but then he sighs and pouts since he doesn't know how. Young readers can help Mr. Fish and his friends find their missing pet, a pink snail, which is wriggling on the floor or peeking from the shelf on some of the pages. Diesen and Monés, whose illustrations are based on those created by Dan Hanna, continue the "Pout-Pout Fish" series, which is geared for beginning readers and is easy to follow in large type. Readers will be pleased that the rhymes in this book are rhythmic and flowing, complementing the pictures. The cartoon-style sea characters are drawn in light pastels accented with dark fins and flippers. Pout-Pout Fish is depicted in a school classroom; this will delight young readers, who will laugh as they recognize the familiar setting with unusual students. VERDICT Pair with other books with similar themes, including Margaret Wise Brown's Home for a Bunny, Don Freeman's Corduroy, and Jan Brett's The Hat and The Mitten.—Monica Fleche

School Library Journal