Lois Ehlert's Fish Eyes

Categories: Children's Books

The best way to entertain my six-month-old daughter is to let her watch the fish in our aquarium.  Sometimes she’ll sit in her bouncer for an hour or more and watch them flit by.  She also loves to be read to, so Louis Ehlert’s Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On is next on her reading list.

Neon colored, cut paper fish with intricate patterns swim against a midnight blue background and introduce counting and basic addition in this beautiful concept book.  One day my daughter will count fish, but for now, I can only imagine what she is thinking as she looks at the aquarium.  Perhaps a line from Fish Eyes: “If I could put on a suit of scales, / add some fins and one of these tails, / I’d close my eyes and then I’d wish / that I’d turn into a beautiful fish.”