Let’s Pretend to be Fish
假裝是魚
Overview
Rights sold: Korean, French
Little Whale snuck out onto land to play and is trapped in the grass. Fifi and Choby are trying to help Little Whale find its way home. With the assistance of some birds, they send a message to Momma Whale, who arrives and tells them that they’ll be able to return to the ocean when the wind blows and turns the grassland into the sea.
Fifi and Choby are invited for some snacks at the whales’ home. But how will they get into the sea?
Momma Whale reassures them that all they need to do is pretend to be fish…
Author(s)
Bei Lynn is both a writer and illustrator, and enjoys telling stories to children. In recent years, she has primarily worked in pencil with digital coloring. Her works include Practice of Saying Goodbye, Let’s Pretend to Be Fish, and the Going to School on a Dinosaur series, with rights sold to multiple territories including France, the UK, Korea, Japan, and Spain.
She has received numerous accolades, including selection for The White Ravens in Germany, the Sankei Children's Book Culture Award in Japan, and the BolognaRagazzi Award Amazing Bookshelf. She has also won the Golden Tripod Awards, the Openbook Awards, and the Taipei International Book Exhibition Award, and was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2026. In 2020, she founded the independent publishing house SiLoo Story.