The Rainbow Fish

Summary; The rainbow fish is asked to share one of his beautiful scales, but doesn't want to part with it and makes blue fish sad. Because of this all his friends are upset with him, after receiving advice from the octopus he decides to share scales with everyone.

Genre: fantasy

Old Children's Book. Liked it as a kid, but haven't read it in years.

One of the best things about this book is the illustrations. They are beautiful. Toddlers will like the shiny metallic accents. The story is simple and encourages sharing in a low key way.

This little book is an Excellent children's book. I highly recommend it. It is a story about a fish...a rainbow fish who has very beautiful colorful shiny scales. The Rainbow Fish loved it when everyone admire her. But she never liked to share. One of the fish came and ask for one of her scales.

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And she was very rude and refused.

Word got around that the Rainbow Fish was mean and would not share. After a while, no one would pay attention to her anymore. The Rainbow Fish became lonely and unhappy. So the Rainbow Fish went to the wise Octopus of the sea for advice. What the Rainbow Fish learned next was truly amazing.

This is a story about sharing and interaction. And also what truly makes someone happy in life. Again, I highly recommend this book because it shares a good idea that can help kids.

The print is somewhat small so it would be better if an adult read it to a child but that is not to say that an early reader could not read this book on their own. The pictures are very pretty and the Rainbow Fish itself is very eye catching. I could see where a child would be lured by a picture of the Rainbow Fish and then wants to read what it says to find out what is going on with it.

If you have young readers in your family, this would be a great book to read to them or to let them read on their own.

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love the moral of the story

This is a book that teaches about vanity & sharing. rainbow fish is the only fish in the ocean with sparkling rainbow scales, he is much admired by all the other fish. When Little Blue Fish asks Rainbow Fish to share a scale, Rainbow Fish becomes rude and Little Blue Fish swims away with hurt

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feelings... causing all the other fish to ignore Rainbow Fish. This is an easy to read book in a large colorful format.... I will read this to both the preschoolers & the toddlers...but will be leaving out vocabulary for the latter group.

As the art project, I have sticky spangles that we will be gluing on Blue cut-out fish.


Class Three at Sea, Julia Jarman ? ? ? 1/2

This delightfully silly tale is about a group of students and their teacher who go out on a cruise and are too busy having fun to notice they are being followed. Soon they are set upon by stinky ugly pirates looking for treasure.... Who will help them & come to their rescue? A fun rhyming book... with the line; "But they didn't see..."

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What a pretty book! I wish I were more comfortable with the message, which verges closer than I'm comfortable with on "give yourself away to make yourself popular". Maybe the full size version is more clear that the allegory is decrying selfishness and vanity rather than instructing children that

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making & keeping friends requires excising what makes you special.

For the right kid, this book is maaaybe a good nudge, in concert with a determined interpretation that the message of the book is "be kind to others". As a general library holding, the message makes me as a parent rather uncomfortable.

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