Little Fish
The classic story **illustrated by Crockett Johnson, the creator of Harold and the Purple Crayon**, about a young boy who goes out fishing and the little fish that gets away—now with a fresh new jacket design! **A little boy goes fishing every day, but he never catches anything—no, not a single fish. So he waits. He waits and waits and waits and waits, and one day, a GREAT GREAT big fish swims by….** A favorite for generations, this witty twist on an old fisherman’s tale featuring an updated look is certain to hook new fans!
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Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg. After her grandmother's funeral, she begins to suspect that her late grandfather might have been trans too. The novel follows her through one hard winter.
The most commonly searched is Little Fish by Casey Plett (2018), a literary novel about a 30-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg dealing with her grandfather's possible secret history. It won the 2018 Amazon Canada First Novel Award and Lambda Literary Award.
Little Fish is a standalone, but Casey Plett has written related work including the story collection A Safe Girl to Love and the novel A Dream of a Woman in connected literary territory.
Little Fish is 64 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Little Fish takes most readers under an hour to finish.
Little Fish is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
