Skyfishing: (A Grand Tale with Grandpa)
By (Author) Gideon Sterer
Illustrated by Poly Bernatene
Abrams
Abrams Books for Young Readers
1st March 2017
United States
Children
Fiction
Hardback
40
Width 233mm, Height 261mm, Spine 10mm
440g
When Grandpa - a fishing connoisseur - moves to the city to live with his family, it doesn't take him long to notice that there is nowhere to fish. Unfazed, his granddaughter proposes they pretend to fish out a window . . . until they actually catch something: a Flying Litterfish! Soon the two are catching all kinds of fish: Laundry Eels and Signfish, a Constructionfish and a Waste-muncher. It's all in good fun, until the skyfishing attracts the attention of the Troublefish (read: police car). This might be the end of their skyfishing, but it's just the beginning of their new friendship. Skyfishing is an imaginative debut picture book that celebrates the magic of companionship.
"Bernatene's rich, energetic scenes are full of comical details to discover, and the vibrant
brushstroke spreads and old-fashioned fishing advertisements on the inner title pages add to the story's whimsy."-- "Booklist"
Gideon Sterer is a debut picture-book author and a recent graduate of Oberlin College. He lives in Brooklyn. Poly Bernatene is an Argentinean illustrator who's worked on more than 60 children's books all over the world, including Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueira and The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett.