One Smart Fish
By (Author) Christopher Wormell
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox Picture Books
1st March 2011
6th January 2011
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Winner of Booktrust Early Years Award: Best Picture Book for children up to five-years-old 2010
Paperback
32
Width 254mm, Height 258mm, Spine 4mm
200g
Find out how one smart fish can change the world! 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
Wormell's watery watercolour world teams with weird and wonderful fish of all shapes, sizes and colours * Books for Keeps *
Chris Wormell's watery water-colours of dazzling tropical fish, with their rainbow-coloured spots and stripes, will surely captivate enquiring minds, eager to glimpse life under the ocean -- Richard Monte * Carousel *
Gloriously colourful story of a clever fish * Daily Mail *
Is it possible to explain evolution to a four-year-old and make it funny Chris Wormell has inexplicably managed with One Smart Fish, the story of a fish determine to walk on the land who invents some fish boots -- Rachel Carlyle * Sunday Express *
Chris Wormell is a self-taught artist, and the winner of the Ragazza Prize at Bologna in 1991. Two Frogs won the Nestle Bronze Award, Molly and the Night Monster was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and One Smart Fish won the Booktrust Early Years Awards Best Picture Book. His books include George and the Dragon and The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit which was recently adapted into a stage play. Chris lives in North London with his wife and children.