The PoutPout Fish Goes to School, Deborah Diesen
The PoutPout Fish Goes to School, Deborah Diesen
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The Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School

Author: Deborah Diesen

Narrator: Fred Berman

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2020

Synopsis

Turn little pouts into big smiles with this Pout-Pout Fish audiobook!

Mr. Fish is nervously awaiting his first day of school, and he frets about not knowing how to write his name, how to draw shapes, and how to do math—until he's reassured that school is the perfect place to learn how to master all of these new skills, in Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School from Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna.

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 Dez the Bookworm on October 21, 2023

This is cute if your kid is going to start kindergarten. This was about a fish who was going to school for the first time and failed at a lot of things so he wanted to give up. After several failures he finally finds where he belongs and realizes that it requires LEARNING to do things rather than jus......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on November 26, 2018

Mr. Fish returns in this third picture-book devoted to his adventures, following upon The Pout-Pout Fish and The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark, this time confronting the daunting experience of beginning school for the first time. Everywhere he goes, he finds that he doesn't have the req......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on June 06, 2016

Have you read any books about Pout-Pout Fish before? If so, tell me some things you already know about Pout-Pout Fish. If this is your first time reading a Pout-Pout Fish book, we can use his name to learn a little bit about him. Pout means to push your lips out, like Pout-Pout Fish is doing on the......more

Quotes

“Diesen tackles a worry not often found in back-to-school books; young Mr. Fish will ease children's fears about what will be expected of them.” —Kirkus Reviews

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

Awards

  • Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
  • SCIBA Book Award - Winner
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