Two final spreads show the cooperative cleanup. Seahorse’s vehicle belches smelly exhaust a fish behind him wears a gas mask. Hanna illustrates with his familiar cartoonish characters, letting his imagination fly with examples of what surrounds these ocean-dwellers as they journey to the trash mountain: straws, cups, and plastic bags bits of plastic toys bottles and cans candy wrappers and pizza boxes old electronics broken sandals tires an abandoned ukelele an Earth Day balloon (oh, the irony) six-pack rings and more. In rhyming stanzas, with an occasional refrain, Diesen tells of the dismal discovery, research, discussion, and consensus: “The problem is… / Us!!!” The friends agree to work together to solve it, inviting readers’ help. Fish and his friends discover “a big… BIG… MESS” in the ocean. In the eighth book in this popular series (not counting holiday miniadventures, board books, and novelty tie-ins), Mr. The pout-pout fish finds more to pout about.
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