Fishing with Dad

Michael J. Rosen, who has taught 200,000 children the pleasures of fishing through his best-selling activity book "The Kids' Book of Fishing," returns to the rod and reel with a new children's storybook, "Fishing with Dad." In an exceptionally lyrical story, Rosen recaptures all the Sundays he spent with his father at favorite fishing holes as he watches his father--now a grandfather--take his grandson to those same places.

He hears his father's same advice, watches him teach the same lessons: how to bait, how to cast, and how to be patient. In the voice of a young boy, "Fishing with Dad" invokes all the details and drama of the fishing experience: hiking to the perfect fishing spot, sorting the lures and untangling lines, skipping flat stones, and, of course, the excitement of the bobber zipping across the water, netting a fish, watching it swim in the holding bucket, and letting it go.

The story also reveals the father's fishing secret: somehow a fish was always waiting to bite when the boy returned from his creekside wanderings. A story of wonder and discovery for young anglers, a gift of nostalgia and love for grown-up experts, "Fishing with Dad" is a book for everyone whose memories include some unhurried time at the water's edge, tossing a hook and a bit of hope into the current.