Title: the worst possible message for a child
Product review: The gist of the book is that Rainbow fish is a beautiful and unique fish. The only way he is able to be happy is by giving away the thing that makes him a beautiful and unique individual. To make himself like all the other fish. Otherwise, no other fish will want to be friends with him.I'm guessing/hoping that Pfister's intention in writing this horrible piece of self esteem destroying garbage was to encourage sharing. It doesn't. The message of the book is that the only way to have friends and be happy is to destroy all that is unique and original about yourself. To destroy the individual.I suppose someone could write a children's book about how fun it is to rape and murder other children. Assuming that book isn't out there, Rainbow Fish is probably the worst children's book ever written.Terrible.the illustrations ARE lovely. Just not so lovely to override the terrible "moral" of the story.
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