Jangles: A Big Fish Story
A Big Fish Story
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
Bestselling storyteller David Shannon instantly hooks readers with this stunning, highly entertaining tour-de-force--his best book ever!Breathtaking oil paintings bursting with energy pullreaders along into Big Lake, the home of Jangles, thebiggest fish anyone has seen. Fishing alone at dusk,a boy feels a tug on his line and comes face-to-facewith the gigantic trout--whose enormous jaw is coveredwith so many lures and fish hooks that he jingles andjangles when he swims. Terrified by the sight, the boy isshocked when Jangles befriends him and takes him on anadventure to the bottom of the lake. A surprise endingwill leave readers laughing and shaking their heads. Hereis Shannon at his very best-in a wild and witty story thatbegs repeated reading.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The heroes of most picture books are furry and adorable. Not Shannon's (Too Many Toys!) trout Jangles, who lunges out of a spread with his gold eye gleaming, fins tense, underslung jaw studded with dozens and dozens of fishing lures and hooks: "They clinked and clattered as he swam. That's why he was called Jangles." The unnamed narrator's father shares a story his father told him, a highly embellished tale about his father's boyhood, when Jangles was the fish everyone wanted to catch. The trout's wily ways were the stuff of myth: "e ate eagles from the trees that hung out over the lake and full-grown beavers that strayed too far from home" (a spray of feathers and a glimpse of trout tail can be seen in midair as an astonished beaver looks on). The boy in the story catches Jangles he claims but few will foresee what happens next, in a series of events that owe both to folklore and suburban legend. Picture-book art doesn't get much more rousing than this; for anglers in particular and adventure lovers in general, it's a slam-dunk. Ages 4 up.
