Papa's Mechanical Fish

Candace Fleming and illustrator Boris Kulikov pair up to tell a fun story about a real submarine inventor in Papa''s Mechanical Fish

Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That''s the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that''s because he hasn''t yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever wondered what it''s like to be a fish?"—and Papa is off to his workshop. With a lot of persistence and a little bit of help, Papa—who is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips—creates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.