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ISBN-13: 978-1931079211 (Paperback Edition) $8.95
ISBN-13: 978-1931079013 (Hardcover Edition) $14.95
ASIN: B07DC2F6NW (Kindle Edition) $2.99
RL 3.8 IL 1-6
NO TIME FOR FISHING
Presented by Gail Heath at
2004 Sundance Children's Festival
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While desperately waiting for something exciting to happen, Jeeper
heroically faces down disappointment and realizes that something important
has been occurring all along. As with Inside Me Sometimes..., Heath's
newest story illuminates the feelings of being young when knots grow in
stomachs, ears burn, lips tremble and hearts become beating hammers.
No Time for Fishing is a beautiful family story that will bring fresh perspectives
with each new reading. It is ideally suited for intergenerational
sharing—especially on rainy days when outside activities must be postponed.
-Robert Smith, PhD Former editor of Michigan Reading Journal
The book arrived today. . . I opened up the package and started reading . . .
I couldn't put it down. I found the story compelling. The illustrations tend to
bring me into the story and I find that their simplicity and color is inviting.
I like how the boy forgets about fishing when he realizes how important he
is to his parents.
-Marlene Smith, Past President of MRA (Michigan Reading Association)
It isn't often that an author not only writes a book and illustrates the thing—while concocting a whale of a children's tale. One which follows a segment of a child's experience from disappointment stemming from the failure of a expected fishing trip which his Father had to cancel. We go with he and his Mom, through temper tantrums to imagined alienated attitudes towards his father when he does arrive home. Through it all his Mother guides them both, even when other developments seem to make the proposition of going fishing totally improbable. In the final analysis, he finds thatlove in the family conquers all -- to include his father—and that is perhaps more important than fishing -- any old day! Well done. A children's book with a message and a point of view!
-J. Alfred Phelps, Author of Chappie: America's First Black Four-Star General; They Had A Dream: The Story of African American Astronauts; Into the Tiger's Jaw, The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen, America's First Black Marine Aviator, and Counterpoint -- a novel of life after death.
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