Swimmy and the triumph of these little fish leaped to mind when I read one of the articles Stanford psychologist Al Bandura selected, among the hundreds he’d written, to mail to me months before he died. Suddenly, he says, “We are going to swim all together like the biggest fish in the sea!”Īnd he shows them how, if they swim close together, just so, they will look like one giant fish. If they come out, they explain, a big fish will eat them all. “Let’s go and swim and play and SEE things!” Swimmy says happily.īut the fish are hiding in the dark shade of rocks and weeds. Swimmy escapes to wander the seas and, though at first scared and lonely, eventually comes upon another school of fish just like his own family. One day, a much larger fish comes darting through the waves and, in one gulp, swallows every fish in the school except Swimmy himself. Swimmy is a little fish who lives happily in the ocean with his many brothers and sisters. Or, like me, you read it night after night to your own children. Perhaps, like me, you read the 1963 book by Leo Lionni over and over again as a young child. This is the second in a three-part series on the legacy of Albert Bandura.
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