The PoutPout Fish in the BigBig Dar..., Deborah Diesen
The PoutPout Fish in the BigBig Dar..., Deborah Diesen
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The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark

Author: Deborah Diesen

Narrator: Fred Berman

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/29/2020

Synopsis

The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark is the funny follow up to the New York Times bestselling The Pout-Pout Fish from Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna.

Mr. Fish wants to help his friend Ms. Clam when she loses her pearl, but though he's fast as a sailfish, as smart as dolphin, and as strong as a shark, Mr. Fish has a secret: he's scared of the dark!

Very young children will swim along with Mr. Fish as he journeys deep into the ocean to new and mysterious places. They will discover, as Mr. Fish does, the power of friendship to light the way through the big-big dark.

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 Emily May on October 10, 2018

My kid freaking loves these books. One of his first words was "pow pow" and I must have read the first Pout-Pout Fish book over a hundred times. By now I can just recite them from memory. The rhymes are undeniably catchy and the illustrations are cute, but someone - i.e. a grumpy old person - has to......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on November 26, 2018

When Ms. Clam loses her pearl while yawning, Mr. Fish gallantly promises to retrieve it, diving deeper and deeper into the ocean to do so. Although he maintains in his refrain that he is as fast as a sailfish, and as strong as a shark, the truth is that he is afraid of the dark. Fortunately for him,......more

Goodreads review by John on October 16, 2010

Note to self: Recommend to teachers who ask for books that contain similes.......more

Goodreads review by Sylvana on February 21, 2020

The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark by Deborah Diesen, illustrated by Dan Hanna Farrar, Straus, and Girous, is one of thirty books in The Pout-Pout children’s book series. The story begins with Ms. Clam losing her pearl and Mr. Fish heading out in search of it. As he ventures off in search of it,......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on November 26, 2017

Andrea Thomas 11/26/2017 Text to teaching connection Let's go on a adventure and lets be any sea animal in which you want to be. We will discuss what animals live in the ocean and then turn off all the lights in the classroom and go hunting for a pearl. This is an excellant game to teach the children t......more

Quotes

“The playful, rhyming verse is well matched with Hanna's funny cartoon illustrations.” —School Library Journal

“With colorful seascapes and bright-eyed ocean characters, Hanna gives this spirited tale light doses of humor (‘Rest stop!’ reads a neon sign on an anglerfish's lure), as Diesen delivers a gentle moral: ‘The ocean is wide,/ And the ocean is deep,/ But friends help friends--/ That's a promise we keep.’.” —Publishers Weekly

“An entertaining read-aloud and a nice lighthearted vehicle for dealing with fear.” —Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • SCIBA Book Award - Winner
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