The Suspicious Fish
sUsPICIOUS FISH VERDUN ELEMENTARY AFTER SCHOOL ARTS and literacy PROGRAM VOLUME 6, 2012-2013 front cover artist Hayley Rodriguez-Roy back cover artists Hayley Rodriguez-Roy and Kaytlin Staples Edited by Gary Purcell WAIT! BEFORE YOU BEGIN FEASTING ON ALL THESE GREAT WORDS… We’ve been wondering if a single word in the English language exists that accurately expresses awe, fear, anger, tummy pain, snot-spouting laughter, inspiration, reflection, anticipation, and for some strange reason; itchy elbows? If such a word does exist, we don’t know it but we started thinking as we put this anthology together that such a word should. We thought about this as we sorted through piles and piles of finely crafted tales about ghosts and frogs, gross bugs, tattle tales, aliens, television shows, doughnuts, leprechauns, teachers, rats, puppies, parents, and ears. Yes, we asked them to write about ears and what they gave us is something that will keep us up nights for the rest of our lives. We never would have thought they would have come with so much about the two things that rest on the sides of a head. See, there you go, just the two things that rest on the sides of a head, that what we thought about them, but not them, not the authors. They really made us think about ears. Where were we? Oh yes, we were looking for a single word to describe everything that you get to read and smile and laugh and gasp over in this book. We also forgot to mention all the fear and mayhem that the writers instilled throughout the writing of these tales.
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