Beginner Books A Fish Out Of Water is a simple tale for young children just beginning to read. Ignoring the pet shop owners advice, a little boy feeds his goldfish too much. What follows is an adventure that brings even the police and fire services out to help cope with a fish out of wafer! Beginning readers will delight in this fast-moving story. Beginner Books have been designed to appeal directly to children through the use of humour, rhyme, and bright pictures that can be "read" even by the non-reading child.