妈妈出门去，家里只剩下我、妹妹、以及只知道看报的“木头人”——爸爸。纳森带了两条漂亮金鱼来，为了换来着两条金鱼，我翻遍所有宝藏。想不到，能换到金鱼的只有爸爸！于是我用爸爸换了纳森的那两条金鱼。　　妈妈回家后，东窗事发。我只好带着爱打小报告的妹妹去纳森家换回爸爸。然而，爸爸却不在纳森家？纳森已经把他换了薇希提辛的电吉他了。我们俩只好拿着电吉他去薇希提辛家，可是我爸爸已经被薇希提辛换了猩猩面具......
"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?

"A bittersweet, guffaw-out-loud story from the most distinctive partnership in picture books today." -- The Guardian (UK)

"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

这是个奇怪的故事，用父亲交换金鱼，有点异想天开，在交换回来的过程中，哈哈，兄妹两个的明争暗斗实在很真实，好期望有两个这样既讨厌又可爱的孩子。