Flood Fish by Robyn Eversole (1995) is based on a true event which is explained in an Author’s Note at the back of the book. In the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory, the Finke River floods when the rains come. Fish arrive with the floodwaters, and no one knows where the fish come from. Eversole thanks the Northern Territory Conservation Commission for help with this book. The text is brief, only one or two sentences per page.
Thepaintings by Sheldon Greenberg are lovely. The cover art made me pick up this book. We see the vast, flat landscape and feel the blue water that colors the dry, brown desert. The fish are pictured close up and brightly colored. It’s an introduction to narrative nonfiction for the very young reader.
