![]() The digitally created art has a 3-D appearance. After the author counts down to 1, she quickly brings the number back up again, as the final fish finds a mate and they have 10 little babies. ![]() Each spread contains a couplet with the final rhyming number word appearing after turning the page-"Ten Little Fish, swimming in a line./One dives down, and now there are-." The cleverness is not in the poetry, but rather in the simple plot line. 3-5) School Library JournalOctober 1, 2004PreS-K-From 10 to 1, this creative counting book features a school of colorful, Nemo-like fish as they gradually disappear from readers' view. The holistic story bubbles with life's endless cycle. Slick, digitally-created images of brilliant marine flora and fauna give an illusion of underwater depth and silence enhancing the verse's numerical and theatrical progression. Then along comes another fish to form a couple and suddenly a new family of little fish emerges to begin all over. ![]() One fish dives down, one gets lost, one hides, and another takes a nap until a single fish remains. ![]() Although the light verse opens and closes with ten fish swimming in a line, page-by-page the line grows shorter as the number of fish diminishes one-by-one. KirkusReview Date: AUGUST 01, 2004This charming, colorful counting tale of ten little fish runs full-circle. ![]()
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