Finny the Fairy Fish

Purple Band 8

Diana McCaulay Stacey Byer

Finny the Fairy Fish

Finny the Fairy Fish

Finding out he is different to his friends upsets Finny. But can his friends help him to see what is truly important?

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There once was a fish named Phineas, Finny for short, who lived with Cadeem the Congatoni on a coral reef in the warm Caribbean Sea. Now Finny had never seen himself, so he thought he was a pinky-orange Congatoni with bulgy eyes like all the others. But he was a rare Fairy Fish, half purple and half orange.

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One day, Finny found a broken conch shell.

He turned it over and saw himself. He was not pinky-orange with bulgy eyes! He was half PURPLE and half ORANGE. He burst into fish tears and hid.

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“Finny!” called Cadeem. “It’s feeding time.”

But Finny did not come out.

“Oh, Cadeem,” he bubbled from his hiding place, “I saw myself in a conch shell and I’m very, very ugly!”

“You are not ugly, Finny! You are a beautiful Fairy Fish.”

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But Finny did not believe Cadeem. He refused to bubble, swim or play. He stopped eating and his colours started to fade.

“What shall we do?” Cadeem asked his best friend, Mara the Moray Eel. Mara thought. “We have to find a wise elder.

I know! Donette the Dolphin!”

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