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Octavia Octopus and her sea-animal friends love playing camouflage games to practice how they would hide from a ""big, hungry creature."" Octavia, however, just cannot seem to get her colors right when she tries to shoot her purple ink cloud. What happens when the big, hungry shark shows up looking for his dinner? This creative book introduces basic colors along with the camouflage techniques of various sea animals - a great introduction to marine biology! The ""For Creative Minds"" educational section includes fun facts about octopuses and animal camouflage and protection. The craft uses primary colors (paint or tissue paper) to help children learn about blending colors. This fictional story includes a 3-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 27-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension.

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9781607185864

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-This highly informative story is supplemented with fun facts in the back of the book and a 'color your own ink cloud' color-sheet meant for reproducing. Highly recommended for all picture book collections.- - Baker & Taylor's Cats Meow

This -complete package- is a must in schools, homes, and libraries with young children. - Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Perhaps the best use of Octavia is as a 'read-to' book. Youngsters will be drawn repeatedly to the gorgeous underwater scenes, trying to spot the shark lurking somewhere in the background of the double-page spreads, and they are sure to pick up a little natural history along the way. - Science Books & Films -This highly informative story is supplemented with fun facts in the back of the book and a 'color your own ink cloud' color-sheet meant for reproducing. Highly recommended for all picture book collections.- - Baker & Taylor's Cats Meow

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Award-winning illustrator Connie McLennan has been a freelance artist for over 25 years, since attending Academy of Art College in San Francisco. In addition to illustrating Ready, Set...Wait! (Fall 2010), she has also illustrated Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls, The Rainforest Grew All Around, River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers, Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean, and Octavia and her Purple Ink Cloud for Arbordale Publishing. Her studio is at her home in California, where she lives with her husband, teenage son, and one big, black cat. Visit Connie's website: http: //www.conniemclennan.com/

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