The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish

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The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
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Author Neil Gaiman
Illustrator Dave McKean
CountryUnited States
Language English
Genre Children's
Publisher White Wolf Publishing, Harper Children's
Publication date
1997
Media type Hardcover
Pages40
ISBN 1-56504-199-2

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, first published in 1997 by White Wolf Publishing. It was republished in 2004 by Harper Children's with a new cover and afterword. The story is a retelling of the old tale of an object that gets swapped from person to person, until the original owner needs it back—and then has to swap possessions back again, step by step, to retrieve it. [1]

Contents

It is also available in Hebrew, Spanish, [2] [3] French, [4] Italian, [5] Croatian, [6] and Portuguese. [7]

McKean adapted the cover artwork from The Day I Swapped My Dad for the 1999 Counting Crows album This Desert Life .

The book was adapted by Oliver Emmanuel and Lu Kemp for a touring interactive promenade production for the National Theatre of Scotland in 2013. [8]

Reception

The book was well received, with positive reviews. [9] [10] [11] It won awards for the Newsweek Best Children's Book (2003) [12] and the British Science Fiction Association award for Short Fiction (1997). [13]

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References

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  3. Gaiman, Neil (2005). El dia que cambie a mi padre por dos peces de colores. Norma Editorial. ISBN   1-59497-076-9.
  4. Gaiman, Neil; McKean, Dave (2000). Le jour où j'ai échangé mon père contre deux poissons rouges. Delcourt. ISBN   2-84055-557-3.
  5. Gaiman, Neil (2004). Il giorno che scambiai mio padre per due pesci rossi. Mondadori. ISBN   88-04-53501-6.
  6. Gaiman, Neil (2004). Dan kad sam trampio tatu za dve zlatne ribice. Odiseja. ISBN   86-7720-004-5.
  7. O dia em que troquei o meu pai por dois peixes vermelhos. ISBN   972-8658-30-3.
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