Deborah Diesen
Children's Author

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Cover image of The Pout-Pout Fish. Image copyright Dan Hanna.The Pout-Pout Fish is a rhyming children's picture book published by Farrar Straus Giroux.  The text of the story is by yours truly, and the wonderful art is by Dan Hanna.

 Mr. Fish spends his days with his fish-face stuck in a permanent pout.  Though his pals try to cheer him up, they have little success.  But as the story swims along, an unexpected friend arrives on the scene and helps Mr. Fish to discover that glum isn't really his destiny.

For more Pout-Pout info, including story time materials, curriculum suggestions, a cootie-catcher, and You Tube links, click here.


My rhyming picture book story The Barefooted, Bad-Tempered Baby Brigade will be published in 2009 or 2010 or so by Tricycle Press.

 In this humorous rhyming tale, fed-up babies band together to protest baths, bibs, belly kisses and more.  The illustrator has not been chosen yet, but I'll add further information as I have it.  Should be a fun book!  Can't wait.