Boo!: A Fishy Mystery

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And there’s also the clever way the words and pictures work together, with the creature’s expressions telling as much of the story as the bubbles of scared speech do! And the colours of the book, like the numbers and counting in One Fox, thread through the story with different coloured creatures on each page. and I just talk it through as he tries it all out (usually resulting in a very heavily layered page of brown, but it’s all about the process!

A Fishy Mystery is a glorious underwater adventure from the creator of the award-winning One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller, featuring a host of sea creatures from an orange crab to a green turtle, a yellow eel and even a purple puffer fishIt all begins with one tiny pink fish who sets off a chain reaction of chaos beneath the waves until suddenly - SNAP!It all begins with one tiny pink fish who sets off a chain reaction of chaos beneath the waves until suddenly - SNAP! Older children could try making scenes of one colour, a shoal of different shades by adding white or black to a base colour or try making fishy collages as described at the back – experiment with layout and colour combinations by cutting fish out of coloured (or painted paper) – which colours look most striking or most subdued together etc. Kate Read's stunning illustrations are as rich and bright as an aquarium of tropical fish and readers will love following the trail of colourful creatures through to the surprise ending.

this was also ace for hsbd eye coordination and fine motor skills as Peapod practiced using the droppers!I loved One Fox by Kate Read which I read for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize back in 2020, and hadn’t realised she had a new one out so I was VERY excited to find this last week!