The Little Fish That Got Away

The LITTLE FISH

THAT GOT AWAY

by Bernadine Cook • pictures by Crockett Johnson

The Little Fish That Got Away • Text copyright © 1956, 1984 by Bernadine Cook • Illustrations copyright © 1956 by Crockett Johnson • New color palette copyright © 2005 by the Estate of Ruth Krauss • All rights reserved. Manufactured in China. • For information address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007 • www.harpercollinschildrens.com. • Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 56005419 • ISBN 978-0-06-243180-6 • 19 20 21 22 23 SCP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 v Revised HarperCollins Edition, 2019 • Originally published in hardcover

by Addison Wesley Publishing Company in 1956

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Once upon a time

there was a little boy who liked to go fishing.

See, there he goes, over there on the other page.

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He went fishing every day.

But he never, no never, caught any fish.

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In fact, all he ever did catch was a bad cold.

Except ONE day, and you will never, no never, believe it—

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He dug some worms and he put them in a can.

He got the long tree limb that he called a fish pole.

He put the pole over his shoulder.

And off he went.

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He came to his favorite spot where he never caught any fish.

He put a worm on the pin, and the pin in the water, and he waited—

And waited, and waited.

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Then he saw a GREAT GREAT big fish.

It swam around, and around, and around, and around, and around and around and around.

Like this.

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