A Fish Come True

A Fish Come True celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries of fishing through a series of “what-if” stories: What if someone discovered a fly that worked on every cast? What if we could fish anywhere, any time in the distant past? What if we could explore the fishing on a different planet? What if our sport’s leading thinkers suddenly decided that an infamous trash fish was really cool and a great sporting trophy after all? A Fish Come True answers these and other engaging questions in stories full of sympathy, surprises, good humor, and—most important of all—hope. In this remarkable array of stories, a tour de force of literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to historical mystery to faux press release to science-fiction adventure, Schullery honors the angler’s innate and precious need to hope. And in the midst of this lively storytelling he illuminates the rich rewards and deeply satisfying misadventures that arise from the fulfillment of our angling dreams.

Summary: The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

Ethan Crownberry's classic tale. If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with his life. That is, until a series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever find true happiness? Join him on his quest for a better life and his journey into selflessness in this heartwarming classic tale by master storyteller Ethan Crownberry.

Ferdy the Fish is the delightful tale of a fish without fins that is unable to swim like most fish in the sea. While his four legs restrict Ferdy to the ocean floor with the crustaceans, could this apparent disability actually be used to his advantage? A story which celebrates difference, Ferdy the Fish teaches that friends can come in all colors, shapes, and sizes, and that it is through harnessing individual uniqueness that we are best able to contribute to the community. Children, parents, and teachers are invited to enjoy the entire Ferdy the Fish collection.

Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.

An enchanted night reveals what every little girl and boy already knows: that dreams come true, all they need is you! During a nighttime dream, three young friends lift off in a hot air balloon over the moon and past the stars to a wonderland of dolphins, islands, and the simplest of rhyming life-lessons that are easy to learn and fun to share.

This a great book for anyone with a dream, especially young teens. It is also great for anyone that enjoys an easy to read book with an interesting story, which also includes some very funny things that happen along the road of life. The story is about a 14 year old boy, named Jonathan, who has dreamed of becoming a racecar driver until one summer day, his aunt carried him to a museum, and he falls in love with art, especially the photographic art. He and his best friend, Levi, work in the fields of a local farmer. Jonathan is saving for a camera to create his art and Levi is saving for a guitar. Jonathan falls deeply in love with the girl of his dreams and both are very passionate for their ages. Some stories in this book are true! See if you can figure out, which ones.

Have you ever made a wish - maybe one, or maybe two? Follow along with little fish on a journey to make his own wish come true...

There are fish everywhere! Some of them live in fresh water, some of them live under ice, and some even live in the desert. There are Fish Everywhere is the first in a series of non-fiction books from Britta Teckentrup. Young readers will learn where in the world all sorts of animals can be found and all the weird and wonderful things that they never imagined were true. This is non-fiction with spark and personality from a much-loved illustrator.

Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, “America’s best fishing writer” (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of “legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on community, culture, the natural world, and the seasons of life” (Kirkus Reviews). “After five decades, twenty books, and countless columns, [John Gierach] is still a master” (Forbes). Now, in his latest original collection, Gierach shows us why fly-fishing is the perfect antidote to everything that is wrong with the world. “Gierach’s deceptively laconic prose masks an accomplished storyteller…His alert and slightly off-kilter observations place him in the general neighborhood of Mark Twain and James Thurber” (Publishers Weekly). In Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers, Gierach looks back to the long-ago day when he bought his first resident fishing license in Colorado, where the fishing season never ends, and just knew he was in the right place. And he succinctly sums up part of the appeal of his sport when he writes that it is “an acquired taste that reintroduces the chaos of uncertainty back into our well-regulated lives.” Lifelong fisherman though he is, Gierach can write with self-deprecating humor about his own fishing misadventures, confessing that despite all his experience, he is still capable of blowing a strike by a fish “in the usual amateur way.” “Arguably the best fishing writer working” (The Wall Street Journal), Gierach offers witty, trenchant observations not just about fly-fishing itself but also about how one’s love of fly-fishing shapes the world that we choose to make for ourselves.