num_pages: 40
description: Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor he has never made anything that works perfectly and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan his daughter Virena asks Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?and Papa is off to his workshop. With a lot of persistence and a little bit of help Papawho is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillipscreates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
language: English
title: Papa's Mechanical Fish
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)