poem about a fish

[reeby10]

My grandmother told me about a poem she's been trying to find, and I had no luck googling for it, so I thought I'd see if anyone here recognizes it. The line she remembers is:

A fish took a notion to walk from the ocean to seek the ocean blue

Or something like that. There were maybe three verses total about what the fish did in the ocean. She read it from a book in about 1947 in her seventh grade class, but she thinks the teacher had probably been teaching it before then.


ETA: Found by dreamerindenial! It's Tip-Toe Tale by Dixie Willson, from The Golden Flute An Anthology Of Poetry For Young Children.

Comments

[dreamerindenial]

It seems to be called "Tip Toe Tale." I found it here on pg 60: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88235

[reeby10]

That's it, thank you so much! She's very excited to read it again :)

[soundofsunlight]

Thank you! I was curious about this one as well. It looks like a fun collection of poems. :)