Summer Learning: The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

Weekly Trip to the Library

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The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister has shimmering illustrations of a beautiful fish, who is very vain. His scales sparkle and shine as he swims through the ocean, but he is very lonely. The other fish attempt to befriend him, but he ignores them until one day a small blue fish approaches him. The small blue fish compliments the Rainbow Fish about how beautiful his scales are, and asks for one of them. The Rainbow Fish refuses and swims on. A crab directs him to an octopus, whose advice is very simple, give away his scales to the other fish and he will be happy. After some thought, the Rainbow Fish decides to take the octopus's advice and finds friendship and happiness and gives the little blue fish one of his scales. The moral of the story is that through sharing and giving we can find happiness and friendship.

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