Don't Trust Fish

Name: Don't Trust Fish
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Neil Sharpson
ISBN: 9798217171248

Author: Neil Sharpson

Narrator: Neil Sharpson

Unabridged: 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 04/08/2025

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Humor, Robots

Synopsis

An absurdly laugh-out-loud funny audiobook about the villainy of fish!

"A ribald and uproarious warning to those unschooled in fishy goings-on." —Kirkus, starred review

Why, dear listener, must you NEVER EVER trust fish?

1) They spend all their time in the water where we can’t see them.
2) Some are as big as a bus—that is not okay.
3) We don't know what they're teaching in their "schools."
4) They are likely plotting our doom.

This nature-guide-gone-wrong is a hilarious, off-the-rails exploration of the seemingly innocent animals that live in the water.

About The Author

Neil Sharpson lives in Dublin with his wife and their two children. Having written for theater since his teens, Neil transitioned to writing novels in 2017, adapting his play The Caspian Sea into When The Sparrow Falls. A huge fan of animation, Neil writes Unshaved Mouse, a comedic review blog mostly focusing on animated film and comic book movies.Dan Santat is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of over a hundred books, including the National Book Award winning graphic memoir A First Time for Everything. His picture book The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend received the Caldecott Medal. He also illustrated The Blur, Lift, and Drawn Together, both written by Minh Lê, which received critical acclaim. Dan is also the creator of the Disney animated hit The Replacements. He lives in Southern California with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy on January 11, 2025

What makes a good unreliable narrator… in a picture book? One might argue that it’s very much the same qualities that make a good unreliable narrator in a work of fiction for older readers. There’s the choice the author must make as to whether or not to show their hand early or leave the reveal righ......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on April 09, 2025

This is the funniest, most unhinged picture book I've read in at a few years. I NEED THIS BOOK IN THE LIBRARY SYSTEM. It's all about fish, except it has the tone of a political attack ad: "Ships always sink at sea and never at land. Isn't that strange? DON'T TRUST FISH! "We know fish swim in schools.......more

Goodreads review by Lizzy on April 07, 2025

Nick Miller wrote this and you can’t convince me otherwise......more

Goodreads review by Erin on March 29, 2025

Funniest kids’ book I’ve read in ages- I want to get it for all of my friends’ little ones! 🤣🐟🤨......more

Goodreads review by JessOfAwesome on March 01, 2025

Very cute and funny is you already like fish. Starts off educational and turns chaotic very quickly. However, I can see this giving kids who don't like fish or don't fully understand the concept of a story yet, getting a phobia of fish. I could just be overthinking, though.......more

Quotes

★ "[A] rapid-fire comedy of piscine paranoia." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

★ "A ribald and uproarious warning to those unschooled in fishy goings-on." —Kirkus, starred review

★ "With exceptional timing in a dry comic voice, veteran playwright and novelist Sharpson's picture-book debut is immersively silly fun, while award winner Santat's always-superb art lands at every possible visual punch line." —Booklist, starred review

★ “Sharpson and Santat's co-creation is a symbiotic marvel.” —Shelf Awareness, starred review

★ “Wonderfully hilarious…Don’t Trust Fish is an educational and highly entertaining delight, sure to inspire interest in oceanography and ichthyology—and lots of rereads.” —BookPage, starred review

★ "A must for every library. It is accessible to young and old, wildly entertaining, and effortlessly instructive."—School Library Journal, starred review

“Consider a book that makes everybody, and I do mean everybody, laugh from the cover onwards. THAT, my friends, is a picture book worth celebrating! That is a rarity! That… is Don’t Trust Fish.” —Betsy Bird, Fuse #8, School Library Journal

“Starting from an already comedic premise, this story goes gleefully off the rails, moving from funny to absolutely and wonderfully absurd, helped along by illustrations that build on jokes in previous spreads.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books