Gasp!: The Breathtaking Adventures of A Fish Left Home Alone
Grade 2-4?A very weak cartoon story. A greedy little fish that resembles a worm with fins reaches for the fish food, flops out of his bowl, and begins a desperate struggle to find water. As his search intensifies, the fish counts down the number of pages that remain in the book ("I'm dying...and there's only 27 pages to go"). Shrill and unappealing, this mock-heroic tale is neither funny nor engaging. This tale's mirthless one-joke premise will not hold children's interest.?Marilyn Taniguchi, Santa Monica Public Library, CACopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.