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Also an Octopus
2016
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages

Even the most totally awesome story starts with a little bit of nothing. What happens next is up to you! A delightfully meta picture book that will set imaginations soaring. It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story, the octopus has to want something—maybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship. Then the octopus sets out to build a spaceship out of soda cans, glue, umbrellas, glitter, and waffles. OK, maybe the octopus needs some help, like from an adorable bunny friend, and maybe that bunny turns out to be . . . a rocket scientist? (Probably not.) But could something even more amazing come to pass? Debut author Maggie Tokuda-Hall, with the help of illustrator Benji Davies, sets up an endearingly funny story, then hands the baton to readers, who will be more than primed to take it away.

Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
940
5 STARS
31%
4 STARS
43%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
1%
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Author

Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Author · 8 books

Maggie Tokuda-Hall (1984 -) is the author of Also an Octopus, The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea, its sequel The Siren, The Spy and The Song, Squad, and Love in the Library. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, children, and objectively perfect dog.

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