Fish take over an average town. Fish takes over a ballpark. Distinct and clear pictures, all done on a scratchboard. ** Could do a followup art activity with scratchboards to get students involved and excited. Good description words would tie in with a writing assignment. Peter Allen (main character) finds a message in a bottle from the fish to the humans at the end.

Awesome book about the creatures of the sea and the fantastical side of having them enter the human world. Illustrations are awesome. ( )

The book is about a amazing experience between a boy and fishes. The fishes came to visit the boy after he move to a new place.

I thought that this was a great book because it had great humor and pictures fit really well with the words in this book. This book also taught me that there is many things that can happen when you write and this is very important to children because this makes children want to write and this is why i will read this book to my students. ( )

In Dear Fish a town is thrown into chaos when Peter Alan get curious about the sea life at a trip to the beach. He writes the fish a note suggesting they visit him at his house; the seas takes Peter up on his offer. The illustrations are excellent, and this book would be appropriate for a wide range of kids since there is enough going on in the pictures that even non readers would have enough to focus on.
The author and illustrator Chris Gall has included a note at the beginning of the book challenging readers to find the 10 visual puns located within the illustrations. I freely admit that it took me a couple of reads to find all of them, but I felt that this was a great interaction within the book.The illustrations also serve to extend the plot and reinforce the text. Dear Fish was a great read, and inspired me to use it for another school/library project. ( )