What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? and other short stories by AVIAVI is the author of many popular children´s and young adult books for over 25 years. His best known genre has been historical fiction. He eventually won the Newbery Award for his book, Crispen, a book about a boy trying to survive mid-evil England. AVI is also known for his children's books like, Things That Sometimes Happen. Its a group of nine short illustrated stories about some sad, happy, and surprising things that sometimes happen. It is illustrated by Caldecott winning illustrator, Marjorie Priceman.
In this book AVI uses seven different short stories to demonstrate lessons learned by a variety of young characters. Bad kids who don't necessarily learn how to be good, sad kids who might learn how to be happy, and scared kids who try to be brave. Taking risks and seeing things from a different point of view can be a powerful element of change.
AVIś book is a great one for the reluctant reader. Each story may have its own appeal to the young reader, and will leave the reader to synthesize the future of each charcter as they tend to end with a lot of unanswered questions.
