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Don't Trust Fish!

"Laugh out loud paranoia about fish."

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LoveReading4Kids Says

May 2025 Debut of the Month

It is hard to believe that this hilarious parody of an information text, is actually the author’s debut picturebook. An author who had the good luck to be paired with the best selling and Caldecott medal winning illustrator Dan Santat, who has taken a very funny text to even greater heights with his gloriously funny illustrations. These range from the hyper realistic images accompanying the definitions of mammals, reptiles and birds, to the imaginative absurdity of the giant fish robots invading the beach as fish attempt world domination.

This is a delightfully absurd mix of fact and fiction - there are genuine scientific facts about animals and about the weird rule breaking fish. Some live in fresh water and some in salt water. Some have gills, while others have lungs etc. But then we are challenged to think about such ‘facts’ as that you can never see what fish are up to underwater and we know they hang about in schools, but we don’t know they learn there, and they’re always eating those poor, innocent crabs.

When the opinionated ‘unreliable’ narrator is revealed at the end of the book, the story arc and the fish focused paranoia makes complete sense. The perfect laconic deadpan comic timing of the text just cries out to be read aloud – multiple times!

An absolute must have picture book that achieves the rare task of entertaining both children and adult readers alike.

Joy Court

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