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Springtime is here, and the fish are biting! Oh, the fun to be had when you sit on a pond bank, bait your hook, and drop it into the water. There's not a computer or cellular phone anywhere near. After you've cast your line, all you do is sit and wait. The fish are in control. In fact, fishing may be a synonym for patience-something we seldom get to practice.
Michael J. Rosen recalls the timeless lessons learned at water's edge in Fishing with Dad. "Most every Sunday when I was little, my father took me fishing," he begins his lyrical prose account. He remembers the early morning stops at the bait shop, the tacklebox, the special hat with lures in the band, the sinker weights, the wiggly worms, the casting, the waiting and waiting and waiting-until at last a fish takes the bait and is caught.
A warm remembrance of outdoor activity becomes much more when Rosen lets readers in on a generational secret that he learned from his father-but not until his son became old enough to go fishing. All is touched with the feeling of shared memory by Will Shively's muted-color photographs of grandfather and grandson which illustrate the text.
Rosen, the author of Kids' Book of Fishing, is a poet, story writer, and illustrator of books for children. He sure can make you want to go wet a line. And if you're really lucky, you'll have a child with you.
Etta Wilson is the Children's Book Editor for this publication.
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