One Smart Fish by Chris Wormell
Publisher – Jonathan Cape Ltd (7 Jan 2010)
Long ago in the deep ocean, there lived … one smart fish! He wasn’t the biggest and he wasn’t the boldest, but he was the cleverest.
What this smart fish wanted more than anything else was to walk upon the land. But everyone knows that fish can’t walk …can they?
Chris Wormell is a self-taught artist. We’ve read his books before, George and the Dragon being one of our favourites, and I think his illustrations are amazing.
The book is bright, funny and kept the children’s interest throughout. It brought up lots of questions about the differences between the varieties of fish and is a great introduction to the subject of evolution. In fact the second to last page has pretty much every type of animal on it which kept us amused way longer than our usual bedtime reads!
