Teacher: Chan Cheong Wing Title: Tiddler, The Story-Telling Fish Publisher: The Alison Green Books Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler Suitable for: P1 – P3
Summary:
Tiddler is a little fish that "blows small bubbles but tells tall tales". Every day he arrives late for fish school and every day his excuse is a tall tale, ranging from having been riding on a seahorse to have been trapped in a treasure chest and set free by a mermaid. At school nobody really believes him except impressionable Little Johnny Dory, who is so excited by his stories that he tells them to his granny, who in turn tells them to a plaice, and thus the stories are spread across the ocean. One day while dreaming up his next fantasy, Tiddler actually gets to live a real adventure of his own. Poor little Tiddler gets fished!
Fortunately, the fishermen throw him back because he is too small, but Tiddler is lost, frightened and does not know how to get back. But then he hears a rather familiar story about himself being chanted by a shoal of anchovies, and follows the story across the ocean from shrimp to whale to herring to eel to lobster to seal, back home and to his classroom, where, as always, nobody believes him except Little Johnny Dory, who does something rather special for Tiddler at the end.
