The PoutPout Fish Cleans Up the Ocea..., Deborah Diesen
The PoutPout Fish Cleans Up the Ocea..., Deborah Diesen
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The Pout-Pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean

Author: Deborah Diesen

Narrator: Fred Berman

Unabridged: 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2020

Synopsis

This audiobook in the New York Times–bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series from Deborah Diesen, The Pout-Pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean, will teach little guppies how to take responsibility for their actions and for the environment.

Mr. Fish and his friends have noticed something strange in their ocean—a big, big MESS! How did it get there? What can they do about it? The closer they look, the more they see where the mess came from . . . and they'll have to work together to get rid of it.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About Deborah Diesen

Deborah Diesen has worked as a bookseller, bookkeeper, and reference librarian. Her first book, The Pout-Pout Fish, was a New York Times bestseller and one of Time magazine’s Top 10 Children’s Books of the Year. She lives in Michigan with her family.

About Dan Hanna

Dan Hanna has over ten years’ experience in the animation industry, and his work has appeared on BBC America and the Cartoon Network. He lives in Camarillo, California.

About Fred Berman

Fred Berman is a five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphone Award for Audiobook Narration and the recipient of the 2013 Audie Award for narration in Spy the Lie. He has read a number of audiobooks for young listeners, including Judy Blume’s Soupy Saturdays with The Pain & The Great One and Andrew Clements’s The Last Holiday Concert. He has also narrated the audiobooks for Robert Kirkman’s popular series, The Walking Dead.Berman is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and off-Broadway in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. On television, Berman has had roles on NBC’s hit series Smash as well as All My Children and Law and Order. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail on June 20, 2019

Author Deborah Diesen and illustrator Dan Hanna team up once again in this eighth full-sized picture-book devoted to the maritime adventures of that reformed pouter, the Pout-Pout Fish. Admiring the beauty of the ocean one day, our piscine hero is dismayed to see a pile of trash. Enlisting the help......more

Goodreads review by Dana on March 31, 2022

I purchased this book for our library with the 2022 Summer Reading Program, Oceans of Possibilities, in mind and I'm glad I did. It's a super cute book with a lesson on working together to keep our surroundings and environment clean! The illustrations are fantastic as well. Highly recommend!......more

Goodreads review by Ana on July 13, 2019

Adorable as always! Mr. Fish and his friends find a big Big Mess! and investigate the who, what, why and how of it all and if you pay close attention to the pictures you might figure it out before they do. I love the hopeful message at the end of this and all of the Pout-Pout Fish books.......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on June 06, 2019

THE POUT-POUT FISH CLEANS UP THE OCEAN by Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna brings back Mr. Fish and his friends who live happily in the beautiful ocean. Suddenly, Mr. Fish notices that there is "A big...BIG...MESS!" in the ocean, and he doesn't know what it is. He swims around and shares his concerns wi......more

Quotes

The Pout-Pout Fish series:

“Younger kids will love the repetition of the verses in this tale of a pout-pout fish.” —TIME magazine, from its Top 10 Childrens' Books of 2008 List

“Winning artwork . . . Hanna's cartoonish undersea world swims with hilarious bug-eyed creatures that ooze personality.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Appealing. . . . The cartoon illustrations of undersea life are bright and clean and the protagonist's exaggerated expressions are entertaining.” —School Library Journal

"Fans of this series will appreciate Diesen's rhythmic—and ultimately reassuring—text, and Hanna's sunny illustrations contain many clever details." —Booklist

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