Customer Reviews

The Adventures of Rainbow Fish--A Deluxe Boxed Edition

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I purchased this book for my young niece and nephew. I really liked the colours and bright pictures and the child friendly storyline that teaches young people a valuable lesson. I also liked the fact that the fish was consistently referred by the same gender. I would find it very confusing (as I am sure most young children would) if the fish was a HE on one page and a SHE on the next! I feel that this is an example of the excellent editing and translating work that you can find throughout this book. Buy it!

Moralizing, dull....Did I say DULL?...preachy.... Only thing I like about these books is the colorful illustrations and the glittery scales of the fish. The message--about the pitfalls of arrogance and prejudice and the value of sharing and friendship and inclusivity-- is presented in such a way that I invariably want to toss the books across the room. I'll look elsewhere for children's books that deal with these subjects. There's just no subtlety, no humor, no surprise to these books. I'm not quite sure why they've won such notoriety, frankly. Maybe it's those glittery scales. Gheesh.

This book is so beautiful, it was about to be a gift to all the youngsters on my list, but when I opened the pix on-line there was the fish referred to only as HE, now how about the more than 50% of us that are girl, girlfish, etc. Let's not keep doing the same indoctrination of young minds. No matter how attractive the illustrations, sexism whould not be taught to our babies if we expect the world to improve. Sorry. I would rate it only one star for this reason alone