Fabulous Fishes
Shiny fish / spiny fish, / fish that hitch a ride. With a simple, rhyming text and full-page illustrations in acrylic and collage, this picture book introduces dramatic facts about more than 20 different fishes—from the mudskipper, which uses its front fins like little legs, and the swordfish, which kills other fish by using its long, sharp bill like a sword, to remoras, which attach themselves to a whale shark by suction disks on their heads, then hitch a ride and feed on the shark’s leftovers. Young children will enjoy pointing out the various fish in the illustrations, while older ones will switch back and forth from the pictures to the fascinating biological facts about fish behavior, habitat, and camouflage gathered in notes at the back. An exciting way to prepare kids for a visit to the aquarium. Preschool-Grade 3. --Hazel Rochman