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The Rainbow Fish

Pfister, Marcus. Book - 1992 E PFI, Kids Book / Picture Books / Animals & Bugs / Pfister, Marcus 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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Call Number: E PFI, Kids Book / Picture Books / Animals & Bugs / Pfister, Marcus
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Translation of: Der Regenbogenfisch.
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

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Great! submitted by LuckyDuck on August 26, 2011, 5:46pm Such a good child book!

Pretty good submitted by Vikrant Kulkarni on May 28, 2014, 6:23pm I read it out everyday to my little son.. n he loves to listen to it.. The pictures are beautiful and bright.. Over and all a sweet cute story book.. wanted to extend it but its on hold so have to return in 2 days :(

:) submitted by Xris on August 3, 2017, 4:05pm Love reading this book and doing art activities with the kids during summer preschool!

wonderful submitted by VanCancue on June 24, 2018, 12:45pm a wonderful book about sharing.

very sweet book submitted by somewhere.gone on June 29, 2018, 10:59pm This is a cute book about sharing, and being kind to each other!

Positive message submitted by elepling on August 3, 2018, 11:32pm Great message about sharing

One of my favorite books as a child... submitted by lauramason89 on August 18, 2018, 11:32am ...and still one of my favorites as an adult. I love the story and the illustrations - especially the color palette and the hints of sparkle. It also gives a great lesson about sharing, although I have to admit I always thought (and still think) that the Rainbow Fish should've got to keep his sparkly scales. He just shouldn't been so vain/arrogant about them. Ha!

Awesome submitted by TLW1998 on June 25, 2022, 7:53pm Great book for little kids about sharing and about how friends are more important than things

You don't have to give a part of yourself away to be liked. submitted by journeyhawthorne on August 7, 2022, 1:32pm I know it's about sharing, but even as a kid the story felt... wrong somehow. As an adult I can now verbalize the issue: the "things" that rainbow fish shares are literally part of themselves. You do not have to rip yourself apart, metaphorically, to be liked by others.

There are good lessons here--it's good to share, don't be vain or arrogant or snobby, but I just can't read this book the same way others do.

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PUBLISHED
New York : North-South Books, 1992.
Year Published: 1992
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 410

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781558580091
1558580107

SUBJECTS
Rainbow Fish (Fictitious character)
Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.
Fishes -- Fiction.