Papa's Mechanical Fish

Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr!  That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?" — and Papa is off to his workshop. With a lot of persistence and a little bit of help, Papa — who is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips — creates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.

• Author
• Candace Fleming, Boris Kulikov

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 40

• Publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-374-39908-5

• EAN
• 9780374399085

• Genres
• childrens, family, fiction, storytime, adventure, transport, historical

• Release date
• 2013