Do Fish Fart?: Answers to Kids' Questions About Lakes

by Keltie Thomas, Deryk Ouseley (Illustrations)

Winner of the Award of Merit from the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. This intriguing collection of questions and answers about our lakes and freshwater systems will fascinate, amaze and inform young readers and anyone who is curious about this world of water. The book answers questions submitted by youngsters curious about water and life in a watershed. This book reveals the common ecology of freshwater lakes. Loaded with illustrations and photographs, the authors tackle the science, plants, fish and animals, and geography. The book also answers questions about what it will take to keep our rivers and lakes clean. Here are some examples of the questions in Do Fish Fart? : Children have the uncanny ability to pose questions that stump adults. Do Fish Fart? answers those questions in a fun and engaging format.

48 pages, Hardcover

Published April 5, 2016

About the author

Keltie Thomas, a former editor of Owl magazine, is the author of several non-fiction books for children. She has been nominated for the Silver Birch Award by the Ontario Library Association five times. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Reviews

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's a lot of information here and I love that they present it in the form of questions from kids. Questions like "Is it OK to pee in a lake?" and "What if everyone poured a drink mix into the lake?" are a refreshing change of pace from the usual in books like this. That said, whoever wrote the captions on the photographs was trying way too hard to be cool because a lot of them are pretty lame.