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Salmon Running and Snow Falling

Salmon Run: An epic journey to the ocean and back by Annie Chen

Snowfall by Sun-jung Park

February 11, 2026 by BlackRaven 4 Comments

Picture books are a fun way to read books. You finished reading something, feel accomplish and can binge without really taking a lot of time out of your day. Take an hour and you can have half a dozen or more reads under your belt depending on the size of them. Two books that would be a good hour read are the two below. The first is a bit on the longer side and paced so you do want to take your time. The second […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, Annie Chen, ecosystems, environmental, fish, lakes, nature, oceans, salmon, science, Sun-jung Park, wordless picture book

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:52 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, Annie Chen, ecosystems, environmental, fish, lakes, nature, oceans, salmon, science, Sun-jung Park, wordless picture book ·
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As Slippery as a Fish

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

November 5, 2025 by LittlePlat 2 Comments

“Billy Gould could not escape the growing suspicion that he had become entrapped in a book, a character whose future as much as his past was already written, determined, foretold, as unalterable as it was intolerable. What choice did he have but to destroy that book?”   I’ve saved the most flummoxing book of the year for the last square on the bingo board: a book which involves metafiction and magical realism in convict-era Tasmania. Thanks, Richard Flanagan. Gould’s Book of Fish has a convoluted […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: art, Australia, cbr17bingo, fish, Fishes, metafiction, Richard Flanagan

LittlePlat's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: art, Australia, cbr17bingo, fish, Fishes, metafiction, Richard Flanagan ·
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Dan! Dan! (Santat)! Is the man

Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson

The Day the Books Disappeared by Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard

All the Hulk Feels by Dan Santat

May 16, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I like the illustrator Dan Santat. While I like the colors, the silliness and the medium to busy details, I have never been sure exactly what draws me. The nice thing is, there are a lot of titles (some he is the author as well of), to explore to figure it out.  And there are three new/recent ones that you should try out to see if you can help explain it to me. First, there is  Don’t Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson. It is a […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery Tagged With: Action & Adventure, animals, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Dan Santat, emotions, Feelings, fish, friendship, Joanna Ho, Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, marvel, Media Tie-In, Neil Sharpson, school, Social Themes, superheroes, Trust

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:267 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health, Mystery · Tags: Action & Adventure, animals, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, Dan Santat, emotions, Feelings, fish, friendship, Joanna Ho, Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin Pritchard, marvel, Media Tie-In, Neil Sharpson, school, Social Themes, superheroes, Trust ·
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The wild world of wildlife

Grandmother Fish: A Child's First Book of Evolution by Jonathan Tweet and  Karen Lewis

Don't Eat the Cleaners!: Tiny Fish with a Big Job by Susan Stockdale

The Search for Carmella by Chloe Savage

March 17, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Education, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge One Monday morning I get into work smidgen later than usual, so my whole system is just off. During a moment of situating myself, I see that there are some books on the cart for the children’s floor. On top of a pile was a book of a red colored fish. It said “Grandmother Fish” and I thought, “Well it could be a cute story.” However, I only saw the first part and not the whole title: Grandmother Fish: A […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, biology, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, Chloe Savage, Education, evolution, fish, Jonathan Tweet, Jonathan Tweet and  Karen Lewis, Karen Lewis, Marine Life, mythology, nature, science, Sea Creatures, Susan Stockdale, zoology

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:155 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, biology, CBR17 Pie Chart Challenge, Chloe Savage, Education, evolution, fish, Jonathan Tweet, Jonathan Tweet and  Karen Lewis, Karen Lewis, Marine Life, mythology, nature, science, Sea Creatures, Susan Stockdale, zoology ·
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Something’s a Bit Fishy

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

December 30, 2023 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

This was one of the books that was kindly sent to me by andtheIToldYouSos for Book Exchange last year, and I am rather sorry that I have waited until the last minute to review it—it has been a busy year.  Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life is a biography of a rather complex character I had not come across before, and why she sometimes connected with him. I perhaps should have heard of him […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #history, eugenics, fish, Lulu Miller, murder, taxanomy, This is a bit mad libs when it comes to the tags I have to say

LittlePlat's CBR15 Review No:21 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #history, eugenics, fish, Lulu Miller, murder, taxanomy, This is a bit mad libs when it comes to the tags I have to say ·
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Schooling the class

Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley

June 9, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Agatha May really likes the Anglerfish, and we learn about that in Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley. Now, I like the Anglerfish but in mid-December 2022 you can find a gal who really likes them. Agatha is a kid who has trouble sitting still in class. Their fingers are messy. They decide to feed when it is not lunch time and they are afraid that when the class picks sea creatures for their school project, hers will be […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: fish, Jessie Ann Foley, Mika Song, Nora Morrison, Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley, school, School & Education

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:280 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: fish, Jessie Ann Foley, Mika Song, Nora Morrison, Nora Morrison and Jessie Ann Foley, school, School & Education ·
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