What's It Like to Be a Fish? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

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1996 ‘Pick of the Lists’ (ABA)
Best Children’s Science Books 1995 (Science Books and Film)

Cute book. to keep your fish tank at.and I used it for a preschool students. I liked all the info except it talks about what temp. Way over their heads.Overall, good info, realistic, and cute.

The illustrations are great and they really show what its like to be a fish. This is an excellent book to introducing the levels of classification for living things. This book explored the physiology of fish in language that young children can understand. The facts are presented in a way that is not overwhelming to children. I have used this book with my preschoolers and they love it.

It shows the different environments in which a little child might encounter a fish: a bowl, an aquarium, a plastic bag being brought home from the pet store and swimming around in a backyard pond. It tells you how to set up a goldfish bowl and why you put the bag in the water for awhile without setting the fishies free. It also tells what the different fins are called, how do fish sleep, are they warm or cold-blooded, how do they breath water when I can't, and similar questions a young child might ask when they have their first fish. What is it like to swim by swishing your tail, round and round, in a small little bowl; or, eating fish flakes sprinkled from above when the person decides it's time to be fed; or to live in an environment that deteriorates day after day into murkiness until you are suddenly scooped up by a net and put into an even smaller container while your bowl is being cleaned.

What IS it like to be a fish. But ontological musings aside, this book is a good little read for kids who, for the first time, are interested in having a fish as a pet. Alas, there are no answers to that question found in this book -- pity. My boy brought this home the school library and the title of the book intrigued me.

Now if only that title-question was answered. The book uses the common goldfish as its example. Basic stuff for the adult, good for the child who shows interest in having a fish pet.

Wendy Pfeffer has a talent for making difficult science concepts understandable to young children. This is a lively and very kid-friendly book with cheerful illustrations that kids will enjoy and learn from.