The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen is about a fish that goes around with a pout on his face. All of his friends try to make his pout go away but the fish says that he is "a pout-pout fish with a pout-pout face and he spreads the dreary-wearies all over the place." One of his friends finally finds a way to turn his pout upside down. After this change he goes around lifting other people up with his happiness.
I love this book. I think the moral of the book is great and children need to know that life is happier when we walk around with smiles on our faces. It also gives a great moral of cheering up people when they are feeling down. The pictures in this book are so colorful and fun which everyone will enjoy looking at. I really love the repetitive phrases in the book and I know that children will love it as well. They will enjoy repeating the phrase out loud when the book is read to them.
This would be a great book for any student as any grade. I think all students will enjoy reading this book and can relate to being grumpy every once in a while and having someone cheer them up. Emergent readers in preK-1st grades will need to have this book read to them because some of the words may be to hard for them. Students in 2nd grade and up will enjoy reading this book on their own or to someone else. Regardless of reading level and grade all students will enjoy having this book read to them. Children of either gender will enjoy reading this book because it is a gender neutral book. Children of all levels will be able to understand the content of this book without much scaffolding.
This book sounds like fun to read. I agree that it could help to cheer up children up who have a pout face.
ReplyDeleteI love the title to this book first and foremost, it is so cute. I agree it sounds like it has a good "moral to the story" type of book. I have had several students I can think of that I would love to read this book to including my children at times. I agree the picture do look fun and colorful. Good pick.
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