Red Tag Comes Back

by Fred Phleger, Arnold Lobel

Good story of a boy who adopts a salmon. Read about the life cycle of this fish. The Ranger tags the fish. Does he come home ? Read it and find out !

Genres: Childrens

64 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1961

Reviews

[Prabhat sharma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Red Tag Comes Back by Fred Phleger Illustrations by Arnold Lobel- Children’s Colour Picture Book- Aku, a child is sitting on the bank of a river. He views small red fish. He knows that it is a Salmon fish. He likes to view the activity of the fish. Just then a Ranger arrives. He collects the fish in his net and labels a red tag on each of the salmon fishes. He tells Anu that this process is necessary to study the life cycle of Salmon fishes. Anu adopts a Salmon. In this river or in the sea wherever, tagged Salmon’s are found, the people inform the Fisheries Department. Thus a study is conducted on Salmon fishes. The story narrative states that salmon fish moves out of the river and enters the sea. Here she locates variety of food. She eats and eats. Her size and weight increases. But in the sea there is danger. Large fish devourers small fishes. She has to move fast out of their way to save her life. She travels a forward journey. About 4- years her backward journey begins. Salmon has to face similar life threats. She travels back and reaches the same place from where she began her journey. Aku is waiting to rec0gnise her with his younger brother. I have read this book in Hindi language. Coloured illustrations help the reader to relate to the story.

[Ardyth · Rating 1 out of 5]

An early reader which almost earns an "It's fine but not mind-blowing, worth a buck if you see it" rating... except for this one small problem:

the text differentiates between "men" and "Indians."

Common enough for 1961, I realize, but there's hardly a dearth of early readers for 21st century children. Just skip this one.

[Jordan Jancz · Rating 5 out of 5]

First book read.

[Garland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great early reader for a 7-9 year old beginner reader!

[Beverlee Jobrack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great way to learn about salmon through a story.

[Chad Brick · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite childhood books, but I had long forgotten it before my sister-in-law gave a copy to my brother as a Christmas gift a few years back. Apparently it was one of his favorites too, despite him being a complete non-reader. To my everlasting joy, my sister-and-law gave me a copy the next Christmas.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another one of my all time favorites. This one is out of print from what i know, I got it on ebay for a reasonable price. (my old copy was falling apart)

[Dawn Summers · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite childhood book! Out of print but a dear friend found a copy for me.. Love it

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