媽媽出門去，家里只剩下我、妹妹、以及只知道看報的“木頭人”——爸爸。納森帶了兩條漂亮金魚來，為了換來著兩條金魚，我翻遍所有寶藏。想不到，能換到金魚的只有爸爸！于是我用爸爸換了納森的那兩條金魚。　　媽媽回家后，東窗事發。我只好帶著愛打小報告的妹妹去納森家換回爸爸。然而，爸爸卻不在納森家？納森已經把他換了薇希提辛的電吉他了。我們倆只好拿著電吉他去薇希提辛家，可是我爸爸已經被薇希提辛換了猩猩面具......
"I'll swap you my dad," I said.

"Oh-oh," said my little sister.

What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father?

What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done?

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"An energetic, eye-catching volume." -- Publishers Weekly

"Delightful." -- Time Out New York Kids

"Leave it to Neil Gaiman to write a zany tale that’s swimmingly good." -- The Washington Missourian

"McKean is in peak form here, with dark, spiky graphics that somehow manage to convey both sweetness and menace." -- Washington Post

"Where the title trade is just the start of a series of juvenile swaps and things get very strange indeed." -- Locus

這是個奇怪的故事，用父親交換金魚，有點異想天開，在交換回來的過程中，哈哈，兄妹兩個的明爭暗斗實在很真實，好期望有兩個這樣既討厭又可愛的孩子。