The small blue fish tells all the other fish that The Rainbow Fish was being rude, and as a result, the other fish do not want to play with him any more. The Rainbow Fish refuses in a rude manner. One day, a small blue fish (named Blue in the TV series) who envied the shiny silver scales asks the Rainbow Fish if he could have one of his. However, they wish that they had shiny silver scales just like Rainbow Fish. The other fish from his shoal also have scales, but only scales matching to their real colors. Interspersed with these colorful scales are shiny, holographic scales which are his favorites. He has blue, green, purple, and pink scales. The story is about a small rainbowfish with shiny, multi-coloured scales. Decode Entertainment turned the story into an animated television series of the same name, which aired on the HBO Family television channel in the United States and Teletoon in Canada from 1999 until 2000.

The book is best known for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish. The glittering Rainbow Fish is his most popular creation.The Rainbow Fish is a children's picture book drawn and written by Swiss author and illustrator, Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. His style is characterised by the use of simple shapes with soft outlines. He is the author and illustrator of many books for North-South, including 'Penguin Pete', 'Milo and the Magical Stones' and 'The Sleepy Owl'. He worked in Zurich for two years before touring Canada, the USA and Mexico. He studied art in Berne, and has been a graphic designer and illustrator since leaving college. AUTHOR: Marcus Pfister lives in Switzerland. In a satisfying and reassuring conclusion, Rainbow Fish discovers that by confronting his fears, it is possible to overcome them, and that sometimes there are simple, completely non-threatening explanations for fabled dangers. Warned by his friends about the dreadful denizens of the deep the giant rock monsters, the five-eyed globe fish, and the horrible creature with a thousand arms Rainbow Fish, accompanied by the little blue fish, musters all his courage and sets out on an exciting quest. Rainbow Fish must brave the Sea Monsters' Cave, rumoured to be the most dangerous place in the ocean, to find healing algae to cure the ailing bumpy-backed fish. Boasting the same eye-catching holographic foil stamping of the earlier books in the best-selling series.

Rainbow fish and the sea monster's cave