- The voice
- Bubbly, bright
- Home
- The Sleepy WaterfallWhere the water slows to a murmur and stays there
- Part of
- Sleep namesA character per sleep word, so the word is learnt without being taught.
- How home goes to sleep
- It goes to sleep when it thins to a shine.
The story of X-Ray Fish
X-Ray Fish is the nightlight of the Snoozy Stream. She glows — not with a lamp, not with a trick, but from inside herself: her fins and wide fan tail shine in soft drifting colours, and along her middle runs a neat row of little curved lines glowing warm gold, like the frame of a tiny paper lantern. Low on her face sits the family snout, and hers is the finest in the whole world: nine little round lamps set in a ring, every one a different colour, glowing softly in the dark water. And here is her secret, which is true of real fish everywhere and funnier on her: she sleeps with her eyes open. Fish have no eyelids at all. So on the darkest stretch of the stream, when everything else has closed and gone, X-Ray Fish hangs perfectly still in the black water, lit up like a tiny lantern, wide-eyed and fast asleep — the light the stream leaves on all night.
Also from The Sleepy Waterfall
Straight from the sheet
Every character is drawn once, properly, on a sheet — the same way the books were made. This is X-Ray Fish’s.
In the archive
X-Ray Fish leads 12 pieces in the archive and appears in 0 more. They arrive here as they are approved and published.