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What's It Like to Be a Fish? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) | 
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| Author: Wendy Pfeffer
Creator: Holly Keller
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 184220
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.7 x 0.2
ISBN: 0064451518
Dewey Decimal Number: 597
EAN: 9780064451512
ASIN: 0064451518
Publication Date: February 29, 1996
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Product Description
How can fish live in water? Why don't they drown? The answer to this fishy question and more can be found in this latest addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. The book clearly explains how a fish's body is perfectly suited to life underwater, just as our bodies are suited for life on land. 1996 `Pick of the Lists' (ABA)
Best Children's Science Books 1995 (Science Books and Film)
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 serves its purpose July 25, 2007
Cute book. I liked all the info except it talks about what temp. to keep your fish tank at.......and I used it for a preschool students. Way over their heads.
Overall, good info, realistic, and cute!
 A must-have for elementary science teachers April 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book to introducing the levels of classification for living things. This book explored the physiology of fish in language that young children can understand. The facts are presented in a way that is not overwhelming to children. The illustrations are great and they really show what its like to be a fish. I have used this book with my preschoolers and they love it.
Unexamined metaphysics August 28, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My boy brought this home the school library and the title of the book intrigued me. What is it like to swim by swishing your tail, round and round, in a small little bowl; or, eating fish flakes sprinkled from above when the person decides it's time to be fed; or to live in an environment that deteriorates day after day into murkiness until you are suddenly scooped up by a net and put into an even smaller container while your bowl is being cleaned? What IS it like to be a fish? Alas, there are no answers to that question found in this book -- pity.
But ontological musings aside, this book is a good little read for kids who, for the first time, are interested in having a fish as a pet. The book uses the common goldfish as its example. It shows the different environments in which a little child might encounter a fish: a bowl, an aquarium, a plastic bag being brought home from the pet store and swimming around in a backyard pond. It also tells what the different fins are called, how do fish sleep, are they warm or cold-blooded, how do they breath water when I can't, and similar questions a young child might ask when they have their first fish. It tells you how to set up a goldfish bowl and why you put the bag in the water for awhile without setting the fishies free. Basic stuff for the adult, good for the child who shows interest in having a fish pet. Now if only that title-question was answered...
Great science book for young kids! April 4, 2001
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Wendy Pfeffer has a talent for making difficult science concepts understandable to young children. This is a lively and very kid-friendly book with cheerful illustrations that kids will enjoy and learn from.
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