You Can Make a Friend, Pout-Pout Fish!

The Pout-Pout Fish

by Deborah Diesen, Dan Hanna

The Pout-Pout Fish is feeling down in the dumps―he does not have a friend at school to play with. But how does he make a friend? Will it be hard to do? With the help of some undersea creatures, Mr. Fish realizes that maybe making friends isn't so scary. Turn little pouts into big smiles with this Beginning Reader, featuring the characters and settings you love from Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna's New York Times–bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, School, Friendship, Animals

24 pages, Hardcover

First published April 9, 2019

About the author

Deborah Diesen is the author of The Pout-Pout Fish, a rhyming children's picture book illustrated by Dan Hanna and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. Her book The Barefooted, Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade was published by Tricycle Press. She lives in Michigan. Visit her web site at www.deborahdiesen.com and her blog at jumpingthecandlestick.blogspot.com

http://us.macmillan.com/author/debora...

Reviews

[Barbara]

Everyone wants a friend, but when Pout-Pout Fish goes to school, he doesn't know anyone, and he starts to feel lonely. Before he gets too sad, he decides that maybe he can solve his problem and make a friend or two of his own. Part of the Level 1 Reader series, this book gives young readers practice in learning words while also learning about actions they can take when things aren't going their way. I liked how Pout-Pout Fish reaches out to others, introduces himself, and invites others to sit with him at lunch. Little ones might find some ideas that they themselves can use in making friends as well.

[Carly MJ]

Simple read.

[MaryLibrarianOH]

An okay friend book that's simple plot and layout make it a good pick for beginning readers.

[Miss Sarah]

Pout Pout fish is off to school and having trouble making friends. Preschool and up

[Suzie]

Easy reader

[Josiah]

This is a story about a fish that does not hav any friends. I love to read it. It is so much fun to read.

[Great Books]

Is your child nervous about starting kindergarten? Let Pout-Pout fish show the way on just how to make new friends at school! This book is perfectly designed too for early readers who are beginning to put together complete sentences.

Reviewer #13

[R.]

This is a short and simple early reader book focusing on the pout-pout fish. Instead of his usually pouting though, this story is about how Mr. Fish chooses not to pout and instead goes out of his way to be kind and make new friends, so his first day of school ends better than it started.