The musicality and rhymes contained within the text make it a consummate pleasure to read. I just love the painted illustrations as well as the many different kinds of fish Lucy Cousins came up with. You proceed to meet the ele-fish, the twin fin-fin fish, the eye fish, shy fish, fly fish, and sky fish. The story starts with a little orange fish who invites you to come along and meet all his fishy friends. Which is why, with "Poisson D'Avril" right around the corner, I thought it a fitting opportunity to introduce one of my very favourite books, Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins. No one is quite sure where this mischievous little tradition came from, but it certainly is a lot of fun! Children all over the country do their best colouring jobs on a sea's worth of multicoloured cardboard creatures, and then have a blast running around sticking their creations to the backs of unsuspecting victims. There is a long standing tradition in France of colouring and cutting out paper fish on the first day of April and sticking them to people's backs as a form of practical joke. What do fish have to do with April Fool's? For the French, everything! Now, I know what you're thinking, and you're not wrong. April Fool's translates to "Poisson D'Avril" in French.
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