49 Years Marine Biology
49 Years of Real Fish Stories

Some Children Read Differently.
These Books Were Made for Them.

Designed for readers who need more space.

Real science. Genuinely funny stories. Built from the first page for children with dyslexia, ADHD, and processing differences — and for any child who needs the right book.

A child peering over a book, eyes bright with curiosity
George the Guppy looking up from the page with a curious expression
One in Five

Not because they are not smart.

One in five children finds reading harder than it should be.

Not because they are not smart. Not because they do not love stories. But because most books were not designed with their eyes in mind.

Yechiel's Fishery Farm was.

Every book in this series is built from the ground up for readers who need a little more breathing room on the page — and a lot more story to keep them turning it.

Molly looking intently at a map, following the clues
What We Actually Did

What “dyslexia-friendly” means in these books

Large, clear type

Set in a font designed specifically for readers with visual processing difficulties. Letters that do not mirror each other. Words that sit still on the page.

Room to breathe

Generous space between every line. Short paragraphs. One idea at a time. Each page has somewhere for the eye to rest.

Chapters that finish

Every chapter is short enough to complete in a single sitting — fifteen to twenty minutes. Children who struggle with reading need to feel the win of finishing something. These books give them that, every single chapter.

No walls of text. Ever.

Dialogue always gets its own line. Scenes separate cleanly. The page never crowds the reader.

Pinchy reading from an ancient scroll, surrounded by lab equipment
Real Science

Real science. Real stories. No small print.

These are not simplified science books dressed up as fiction. They are proper stories — funny, warm, full of characters your child will argue about at dinner — that happen to be written by a marine biologist with forty-nine years of real fishery experience.

Every biological fact in every book is true. Checked by the author, who has spent his career doing exactly what Yechiel does in the stories: watching, recording, wondering, and occasionally being outwitted by a fish.

Children who find reading hard are often the ones who most need the right book. A book that respects their intelligence. That gives them real science, not babytalk. That makes them feel like the clever reader they actually are.

What parents & teachers tell us

The books that finally worked.

He finished a chapter. First time this year.

She asked me what a plecostomus eats for breakfast. I had no idea. She explained it to me.

Finally — a book I can read aloud without losing my place, and he can follow along without losing his.

These books work in the classroom, at bedtime, and on long car journeys. They work for children with dyslexia, with ADHD, with processing differences, and with no diagnosis at all — just a short attention span and a strong opinion about fish.

A child curled up on a sofa reading, fully absorbed in the story
49 Years Marine Biology
49 Years Marine Biology
Yechiel Kuperman · Author
Yechiel Kuperman at a chalkboard with fish biology diagrams, surrounded by students
Typography & Design Details

Every decision made for the reader.

These are not cosmetic choices. Every typographic and layout decision in this series was made with one question: does this help the reader stay on the page?

DetailWhat we chose and why
FontAtkinson Hyperlegible — designed by the Braille Institute specifically for low-vision and dyslexic readers.
Line spacing1.5× standard — wider than a typical children's book.
Font size14pt body text — larger than industry standard for this age group.
Paragraph length1–3 lines maximum.
DialogueAlways on its own line. Never buried inside a paragraph.
Chapter length1,000–1,400 words. Fifteen to twenty minutes per chapter.
Page size6" × 9" — generous page, generous margins, generous everything.
Pinchy the hermit crab unrolling an ancient scroll, reading carefully
George the Guppy looking directly at you through enormous funny glasses

Your child deserves a book that was made for them.

Not adapted. Not simplified. Not a “special edition.”

Made for them, from the first page.