picture book in Spanish/English (fish looking for his mom, find animals in all different colors)

We had a small crowd but I think this story went over OK. Would read again for a bilingual storytime.
Note that this story uses "purpura" for purple.
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Little white fish is looking for his mommy. As he travels through the sea, he meets up with various sea animals of various different colours. Just a cute story about marine life, that also teaches colours. Simple pictures, simple text. My granddaughter loved it. I recommend this book to all family libraries and pre-school classrooms. The publisher, Clavis Publishing, generously provided me with a copy of this book to read. The rating, opinions and ideas shared are my own. ( )

Little White Fish is a lovely picture book and a very clever way to teach young kids basic colours.
Along the way the wee ones get to know quite a few sea animals.
Adding to it, our main character is very likeable and behaves pretty much exactly like the target group (the picture book is aimed at children 30 months and up).

The little white fish is in tears, he has lost his mommy.
Now the young reader is swept along with our cute main character as we are on a search to find mommy-fish. On every page we meet a different animal and each one has a different colour.
The crab is red, the starfish orange, the snail yellow, the turtle green, the whale is blue and finally there's the purple octopus.

At the end, parent and kid are reunited and again this is a very clever story, as our mommy isn't just a plain white fish, but also sports all the colours of the rainbow and guess what, we just learned them and now there's a chance to repeat and therefore memorize.

And if you now go back to the first page, you will see, that at the start of our story when the fish is surrounded by shells and seaweed, there they are again, the six colours. The shell is purple, the sand is yellow, the waves are blue, etc. What a fab idea.

The Little White Fish sure is a real 5 Star-Fish. ( )

Like a small fish taking cover behind some underwater plants or rocks, Guido van Genechten’s Petit poisson blanc, translated from the Dutch by Diane Meirlaen, was lurking in the Oxfam bookshop behind another French children’s book on clothes. The story line is pretty basic. It must be the first of a series. It is the story of a white baby fish who has lost its mother. Trying to find her the baby fish encounters a big red crab, an orange starfish, a yellow snail, a green turtle, a big blue whale, a purple octopus and finally his or her mother who has all the colours of the rainbow. That’s it. Pretty boring really. But have I missed the educational point? The colours of the individual sea creatures make up the colours of the rainbow. It is a very happy book. If Pep Guardiola was reading it he may say that he is very, very happy. Nobody loses and nobody gets eaten. It is Brexit free. Our fish, Mr Fish II, turned colour from orange to white and promptly died. ( )

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