The Little Trianglefish Returns

The award-winning children’s book series, The Little Triangle-Fish, inaugurated in 1997, recounts the adventures of a little fish who is somehow different from all the other fish. Feisty, optimistic and imaginative, the Little Triangle-Fish masters the many unexpected situations he finds himself plunged into. He fights a giant shark, escapes the nets of tricky fishermen, rescues a sea horse and helps exotic fish escape captivity in aquariums. Iliopoulos’ heroes exist in a miniature underwater version of human society. The author deftly manages to fill his tales of the little yellow fish’s everyday life in the ocean deep with socially relevant issues such as exclusion, war and threats to the environment, and to include pleas for respect, equal rights and tolerance, in a style at once simple and elegant. Iliopoulos presents the little Triangle-Fish – now one of Greek children’s best loved literary heroes for more than 15 years – as an independent personality, a proponent of human values and pioneer in the struggle for an ecologically aware use of the oceans.