Where's the Fish?

by Taro Gomi

きんぎょが１ぴき、金魚鉢からにげだした。どこににげた？　カーテンの赤い水玉模様の中にかくれてる。おや、またにげた。こんどは鉢植えで赤い花のふり。おやおや、またにげた。キャンディのびん、盛りつけたイチゴの実の間、おもちゃのロケットの隣……。ページをめくるたびに、にげたきんぎょがどこかにかくれています。子どもたちが大好きな絵探しの絵本。小さな子も指をさしながらきんぎょを探して楽しめます。

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Japanese Literature, Storytime

24 pages, Hardcover

First published August 31, 1982

About the author

Taro Gomi (五味太郎) is a major children’s illustrator and writer. He has more than 400 book titles to his credit. His work has been widely translated into 15 other languages.


Tarō was born in Tokyo and he graduated from ID department, Kuwazawa Design Institute. His readers range from babies to adults, with an equal number of fans overseas. His work has been appreciated considerably with both domestic and international honours such as the Sankei Jido Shuppan Bunka Award, Bologna Children's Book Fair Award among others.


Along with authoring children's books, he is well-known in the fields of Stationery design, clothing design, production of young children's animated videos, CD-ROMs, essays etc.


His popular books published in English include Everyone Poops, Santa Through the Window, Where's the Fish?, My Friends and The Crocodile and the Dentist.

Reviews

[Ahmed · Rating 2 out of 5]

قصة تصلح للأطفال تحت 4 سنوات
عن سمكة تهرب من الحوض وتختبئ في عدة أماكن
هدفها تقوية الملاحظة عن الأطفال

[Janet · Rating 4 out of 5]

The youngest child with limited vocabulary will be reading this title their self as well as locating fishy in the bold brightly colored illustrations as it only has two repeating sentences and a final third one. The repeating sentences are only two words. Interesting that this particular Gomi title is published in Japan, Asia, the United States, Australia, and United Kingdom and Ireland. Definitely a world wide appeal and early skill development title and fun at the same time.

[Ngoc Anh · Rating 5 out of 5]

My boy loved it very much!

[Lawrence Palmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a simple seek-and-find book with a single question of Where's the fish? The fish is hidden on the page somewhere.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

直前に五味太郎のインタビューを見たので、本屋で読んだ。
うん、懐かしい。
鮮やかで素敵な絵。
説教臭く無い。
図書館で検索したら、日本語版は貸し出し禁止だったので、英語版を借りてみるつもり。

[Fred]

I found the fish easily! The boy, in the other hand, seemed h aware we were looking for the fish.

[Hruzek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gomi Taro is my favorite children's book author. This is just one of many great books.
If you speak Japanese check out 'Kotowaza Eihon'. Patches- you'll love it.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Extremely simple words in this book. "Where's fishy?" Your child has to find the fish in the pictures. Cute book.

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

I guess you can tell this is a book for little kids, but i saw this, and it was really cute.

[Gail · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Taro Gomi's style and use of color. Each page pops.

[Danny · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very simple book where the red fish hides in various places.

[Tommy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very simple book where the red fish hides in various places.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

quite clever, one page asks "where's Fishy? as you see him leave the scene on the page, the next page you have to find him. think where's waldo? for three year olds.

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 1.5 year old never gets tired of looking for the fish - such a cute book and so much fun!