in a 2013 interview with Publishers Weekly. 'We decided that I'd get only 50 percent of my usual royalties for the book, and only that way was it possible to make it work.'" Former conservative radio host Neal Boortz said that The Rainbow Fish in his view was, "...one of the biggest pieces of trash children's books ever published" for the similar reasons to that of Welch, as Welch states in the Reason article, "...[the Rainbow Fish] only gets truly ostracized because he won't hand over his body parts on demand, in the name of equality." References External links http://www.marcuspfister.ch http://www.rainbowfish.us http://www.northsouth.com 1992 children's books Picture books Swiss children's literature Children's books adapted into television shows Fish in popular culture