Henny, Penny, Lenny, Denny, and Mike

Cynthia Rylant's picture book about five goldfish — four named, one perpetually overlooked — delivers an inclusion message with the kind of playful, rhythmic energy that makes read-alouds genuinely fun. Kirkus praised it, Sonderbooks gave it a starred review and ranked it among the top picture books of its year, and Publishers Weekly noted the strong read-aloud appeal. The plot is thin even by picture-book standards, but the warmth and the wordplay are the point, and they deliver.