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FISH IS FISH by Leo Lionni

FISH IS FISH

by Leo Lionni

Pub Date: Oct. 12th, 1970
ISBN: 0394804406
Publisher: Pantheon

You are what you are. . . if you're a fish not a tadpole. But when he minnow's best friend grows legs, loses his tail, leaves the water and returns to tell of birds and cows and people — all of whom the minnow imagines in fishy forms — he sets out to see for himself. Stranded on the bank, he's launched again by the frog, and has to agree — willingly, from the depths of his "most beautiful of all worlds" — that "fish is fish." Slight, but worth seeing for the outraged look in the eye of the left-behind minnow and the nifty cowfish he conjures up.