false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178160878m/766020.jpg 766020 27 If you read this very popular book just before bed, and the light is still on in the hallway, you can make the rainbow scales glitter on the page, and realize why the Rainbow Fish was so proud of his beautiful decoration. Sometimes, though, being too proud of outside beauty can blind a fish, or a child (or even, heaven forbid, a parent) to the beauty people hold inside. That's the lesson of this simple tale, imported from Switzerland. It's a useful one for future sneaker and designer clothing shoppers, for rainbow fish--and for quieter, plainer minnows, too. 56647 1 9 1992 The Rainbow Fish total:1456|5:508|4:424|3:362|2:110|1:52| 1456 5594 1673 135 4 4 false false Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 10:29:52 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 10:30:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false false Wed Jun 13 17:43:20 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 23 09:58:23 -0800 2008
You might think I'm being ridiculous, but I was a bit alarmed at this children's book wh...more...]]> 0 4 false false Fri Apr 17 22:42:39 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 19:08:00 -0700 2009
Of a genre with The Giving Tree and the stalker classic Love You Forever.]]> 1 4 false false Mon Mar 17 21:00:55 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 21:03:11 -0700 2008
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the plain fishes gave up asking him to play,
something rude something, he swam away.

Later a plain fish requested a scale
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One I remember enjoying with my daughters whe...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jul 29 19:29:57 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 19:31:35 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 21:36:41 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 21:36:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Sep 10 16:20:30 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 16:20:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 25 13:00:20 -0800 2008 Fri Jul 18 12:12:10 -0700 2008
It seems everyone in the world except me had heard of this book, which I have now been given to understand is a classic kids' picture book. So, not wanting to be left out (as usual), I grabbed a copy from the library and gave it a go. (...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=766020