A Million Fish: More or Less - Hardcover

McKissack, Pat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679906924 ISBN 13: 9780679906926

Publisher: Random House Childrens Books, 1992

Synopsis

An original folktale of the Louisiana bayou borrows on the age-old practice of bragging about the fish that got away. By the author of Mirandy and Brother Wind and Nettie Jo's Friends.

About this title

About the Author

Award winning author Patricia McKissack comes from a family of skilled storytellers, who taught her to listen and observe and who encouraged her life-long love affair with words.
The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural was a 1993 Newbery Honor Book.  Pat also
received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1993 for The Dark Thirty.
Pat wishes she could have talked to her hero, Frederick Douglass, about his rise from slavery, his daring escape, and freedom -- at last!
If she was not an author, Pat would like to be an interior designer or an architect so she could tell stories through design.
Pat frequently collaborates on books with her husband, Fredrick.  They have three sons and live in
St. Louis, Missouri.

From the Inside Flap

ll color. In an original yarn of the Louisiana bayou, McKissack honors the tradition of bragging about the one that got away. Hugh Thomas hears that strange things happen on the Bayou Clapateaux, but he's skeptical--until he invents a fish story of his own. "McKissack understands the elements of a good story, and includes just enough detail to make it work. Uninhibited splashes of vivid colors fill the pages and elicit a joyous emotional response to the dynamic human figures. A radiant debut for a talented illustrator."--(starred) School Library Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679906924
• ISBN 13: 9780679906926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Schutzer Dena