"Finding Nemo: Fish School"

"Fish School," as the title implies, follows Nemo and his under-the-sea friends as they attend school one day. They attended music class, science class, lunch, recess, a language class, and had a show-and-tell time. The author did a really good job of making the classes similar to those that humans attend, but making them more appropriate for a world of fish. For example, in the music class, Nemo played the conch shell (which is similar to the trumpet), Sheldon played the clams (which are similar to a drum set), Tad played on some kelp (which is similar to a string instrument), and Pearl played sand-dollar tambourines (which are similar to cymbals).

The author wrote the book as a follow-up to the Disney movie Finding Nemo, but the book could be read and understood without having seen the movie. I love how the author placed random references to the movie into the book. At the beginning of the story, the narrator was saying how much Nemo loved school and everything about it, especially field trips. The narrator goes on to describe Nemo's first field trip, "On his very first trip, he was fish-napped by a scuba-diving dentist and brought to an office aquarium in Sydney."

This book had a very important message for children. School can be fun. Students have the opportunity see their friends everyday, learn new and interesting things, spend time with exciting teachers, and go on fascinating and educational field trips. I really enjoyed reading this book, because it was really interesting to delve into the world of Nemo and see how things work under the sea.