Roger and Emily are going fishing. Roger is riding his bike with Emily in back and Bob (the dog) in the front basket. The bike is loaded down with passengers and equipment. Not only that, but the streets and sidewalks are also busy. With Emily hanging onto the fishing pole, she begins to catch items on the pole belonging to others. The next thing you know, they are being chased by a variety of people trying to get their possessions back. It is a cute picture book where more and more things are happening, and people chasing them causing a chain reaction. When they finally end up at the lake, they realize they all need to relax and enjoy themselves. A cute humorous story that young children will enjoy with the repetition in the text making it fun to read.

The artwork is simple with drawings on a white background with some parts water coloured. I read a digital copy and there were some issues with the graphics, but I am sure the actual book will show them in their entirety. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley. ( )

Sometimes I think I've read every picture book there was, is, and will be.

Then I run across Roger Is Going Fishing.

Roger and Emily are off to the lake to go fishing. On the way, Emily accidentally catches a few non-fish. It's a cumulative tale, with just a splash of rhyme and repetition, without being annoyingly so. And the whole tale has a satisfying ending.

Quite delightful. ( )

This one was just okay to me. The story, such as it is, is the type of repetitive fare to be expected in a lot of early reader books and that was fine, but there are so many books that do this with great success these days that I felt this one fell a little short. ( )

The story and art is very whimsical. I enjoyed it, but I didn't really like how we jumped straight into the story without much introduction. The ending was cute. ( )

This is a fun little adventure book. The pictures were fun to look at with my little ones. They liked finding the things that the little girl catches. The story feels a little choppy, but I'd read it again to my kids. ( )