One Smart Fish
School year: Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2
No. of pages 32
Published: 2011
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book has been graded for interest at 5-7 years.
There are 32 pages in this book.
This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).
This book was published in 2011 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Chris Wormell lives in North London with his wife and children. He was the winner of the Ragazza Prize at Bologna in 1991. His previous books for Jonathan Cape are Where I Live and What I Eat, Blue Rabbit and Friends and Blue Rabbit and Friends and Animal Train and Off to the Fair (to be published in 2001).
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Booktrust Book Awards - Early Years - Baby
This book was recognised in the Early years - Baby category of the Booktrust Book Awards . The Book Trust Book Awards aim to unearth the very best childrens books the UK has to offer, and to honour authors and illustrators who continue Britains proud heritage of storytelling. Heritage catgeoires include: Blue Peter Book Awards, Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award, Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Booktrust Best Book Awards (with Amazon Kindle). Current categories include: Storytime Prize, Lifetime Achievement Aawrd, Children's Laureate.
Roald Dahl Funny Award - Funniest Book For Children Ages 0-6 Years
This book was recognised in the Funniest Book for Children Ages 0-6 Years category by the Roald Dahl Funny Award.
"Wormell's watery watercolour world teams with weird and wonderful fish of all shapes, sizes and colours" * Books for Keeps *
"Chris Wormell's watery water-colours of dazzling tropical fish, with their rainbow-coloured spots and stripes, will surely captivate enquiring minds, eager to glimpse life under the ocean" -- Richard Monte * Carousel *
"Gloriously colourful story of a clever fish" * Daily Mail *
"Is it possible to explain evolution to a four-year-old and make it funny? Chris Wormell has inexplicably managed with One Smart Fish, the story of a fish determine to walk on the land who invents some fish boots" -- Rachel Carlyle * Sunday Express *