Amazing Adventure of Littlefish

Margaret Bunel Edwards is a free-lance writer and author of several
children’s books.

Little Fish is born before there are people and animals in the world.
She wants to find out what lies beyond the other side of the sea, so she
says goodbye to her family and begins the longest journey a fish ever
made. She swims until she reaches land. If only she could walk! She
wishes so hard that she grows two arms and two legs, and crawls up on
land. Finally she stands and becomes a human being.

The reader is shown that everyone grows and changes like Little Fish,
and learns to stand and walk. But what if people could fly like birds?

This imaginative explanation of human evolution is simply told. It is
not meant to be taken literally. Neither are the illustrations, done in
soft, dreamy colors, which show Little Fish emerging from a hen’s egg
and sucking her thumb.

The words and pictures in this happy, informative book should appeal to
very young children who wonder, “Where did I come from?”