Category: Essay

In an age of infor­ma­tion overload—where opin­ions flood every cor­ner of our screens—what do you do when some­one insists, “What­ev­er you do, don’t trustX”, Do you believe them? Or not? Have you ever found your­self on the verge of trust­ingX or Y,only to be hit by a sud­den twist… then a twist on the twist… then a twist on the twist of the twist? So when you open a brand-new pic­ture book titled Don’t Trust Fish, the ques­tion prac­ti­cal­ly leaps off the cov­er: Should you trust it? Or not?

I had the chance to read a dig­i­tal pre­view of this book before its glob­al release, and inter­est­ing­ly enough, even before its offi­cial pub­li­ca­tion date—April 8, 2025 (exact­ly sev­en days after April Fools’ Day!)—the book has already made waves among ear­ly read­ers. Thanks to its sharp humor, unex­pect­ed rever­sals, and sheer orig­i­nal­i­ty, it has gar­nered glow­ing advance praise from casu­al read­ers and pro­fes­sion­al review­ers alike. Peo­ple are cel­e­brat­ing the book’s inven­tive spir­it, espe­cial­ly its bold use of an unre­li­able nar­ra­tor, which deliv­ers deli­cious­ly dark humor wrapped in a child-friend­ly pack­age. But what makes this book tru­ly stand out is how its cre­ators sub­tly weave in ele­ments of sci­ence lit­er­a­cy and media aware­ness, turn­ing what looks like a sim­ple pic­ture book into some­thing far more lay­ered. For read­ers eager to dis­cov­er what pic­ture books can real­ly do, this is the kind of title that makes you sit up and pay atten­tion.