don’t trust fish

We’re going on tour!

Big news!

At the end of the month I’ll be embarking on an epic, two week book tour of North America with my colleague in anti-piscine propaganda Dan Santat! We’ll be doing readings in schools across the US and Canada as well as some public events and I’d love to see you there!

Here’s the schedule

Fri 27th February, 6pm

Anderson’s Bookshop, Downers Grove, Illinois

TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/Author-Event-with-Neil-Sharpson–Dan-SantatDont-Trust-Fish-78183

Sun March 1st, 11 am

Bookpeople, Austin, Texas

TICKETS HERE: https://bookpeople.com/event/2026-03-01/special-author-storytime-neil-sharpson-and-dan-santat

Sat March 7th, 11.30 am

Hicklebee’s Bookstore, San Jose, California

TICKETS HERE: https://hicklebees.com/event/2026-03-07/neil-sharpson-dan-santat-dont-trust-fish 

Sunday, March 8th, 1pm

Langley, British Columbia, Canada

TICKETS HERE: https://ticketscene.ca/events/59235/

And it’s out!(plus new podcast episode!)

My first kid’s book with illustrations by the inestimable Dan Santat is now out! Swim to your nearest bookseller and get your copy of Don’t Trust Fish!

And! Join me on Now That’s What I Call Nostalgia! where myself, Spouse of Mouse and Esther talk about Degrassi Junior High, that classic of Canadian television, and where I probably overshare with a story about a misidentified water balloon.

Two New Reviews!

Hello hello hello!

Two new reviews have dropped for Don’t Trust Fish!

In a starred review, Kirkus says: “Sharpson offers so-fish-ticated readers a heads up about the true terror of the seas. His delightful text, filled to the brim with jokes that read aloud brilliantly, pairs perfectly with Santat’s art, which shifts between extreme realism and goofy hilarity.”

And Betsy Bird has written an absolute sweetheart of a review at the School Library Journal: “There are some picture books that you read that make you chuckle when you see the cover. There are some picture books where they might get one legitimate laugh out of the adult reader. There are some picture books that are funny to young readers. Now consider a book that makes everybody, and I do mean everybody, laugh from the cover onwards. THAT, my friends, is a picture book worth celebrating! That is a rarity! That… is Don’t Trust Fish.”