Overview

An octopus struggles with misadventure when he leaves home but is relieved to know how and where to find a safe haven.

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9780761458128

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“In the opening panels of this wordless picture book, an octopus emerges from his home, pulling a small walrus in a red wagon. He climbs up a rope dropped by a hippopotamus fisherman and is caught, and from there his adventures take off in a series of three-to-four boxed illustrations per page. Young children will giggle as he wiggles his way through busy cobblestone streets, evading a hippopotamus city worker’s broom and the clutches of a walrus chef and a rat waiter in a tux. The artist’s signature cartoons are colorful, whimsical, and entertaining. Mayer continues to enchant a new generation of readers.” —School Library Journal

Author Information

Mercer Mayer has published more than three hundred books, including the popular Little Critter® and Little Monster® series and There’s a Nightmare in my Closet. With Octopus Soup, Mercer returns to his roots, since his first book, A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog, published in 1967, was completely wordless. He and his wife, Gina, his sometimes collaborator, live in New England.

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