These are the front covers of the same book. The text has been changed too - Boo becomes Hey! Why? Here is the US trailer. And you can see inside the US version here.
UK/Australian Blurb: Boo!: A Fishy Mystery is a glorious underwater adventure from the creator of the award-winning One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller, featuring a host of sea creatures from an orange crab to a green turtle, a yellow eel and even a purple puffer fish. It all begins with one tiny pink fish who sets off a chain reaction of chaos beneath the waves until suddenly - SNAP! - she finds herself all alone in the ocean. Where has everyone gone, and how can such a tiny creature rescue her friends?
US Blurb: All is quiet in the deep blue sea, until a tiny pink fish is mistaken for something scary. Suddenly, tales bursts forth about a “great big fish hiding in the deep!” Readers discover a colour each time a new fish becomes entangled in the mayhem and hysterics. The red octopus was really rattled, which petrified the purple puffer fish, and startled the blue shoal, until they all flee…into a deep, dark cave. Uh-oh! That’s no cave at all!
I guess this doesn't matter really because the illustrations in this book are delightful but I do think the change of title does change your impression of this book and perhaps changes expectations for younger readers. My friend, who altered me to this difference, and I wonder also why the word boo is perhaps not acceptable to a US market?
I would pair Boo or Hey with The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky and Swimmy by Leo Lionni.
UK Author/illustrator Kate Read was given an Ezra Jack Keats honour award in 2020 for her book One Fox. The rules for this award state in part:
The intent of the Award is to identify and encourage early talent and to promote the creation of outstanding diverse literature for children. To be eligible, the author will have no more than three books published under any name, prior to the book under consideration. Both U.S. and international writers are eligible for books that are published in North America, and in the English language.
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