Book Talk 7: The Little Red Fish

The Little Red Fish

By: Tae- Eun Yoo

                                            

The Little Red Fish is the story of a little boy named Jeje who goes to the library where his grandfather works at. Jeje takes his little red fish to the library with him, and while they are waiting for his grandfather to close the library down Jeje falls asleep. When Jeje wakes up his little red fish is nowhere to be found. Jeje goes on this whimsical and mysterious search for his little red fish, until he finally catches him. 

The illustrations in this book are amazing. The pages in this book are all sepia toned which works really well for the story because it allows the red fish to stand out. Towards the end of the book their are some pages with no dialog on them. I think this is a good idea because it gives the little ones the opportunity to let their imaginations run wild and make their own story line. 

Even though this book has a very simple story line it allows the children’s imagination to go beyond what their used to. 

One of the ways I would use this book in my classroom is that I would cover all the words from the original book and have my students write their own story line by just looking at the pictures.