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An octopus enjoys living in its under water cave watching fish swim by, chasing his dinner, and sweeping the sand from his cave. But his life changes when he's captured and taken to live in a big glass house. The octopus was content for a while, but soon tired of being trapped, so he made plans to escape, and return back where he belonged.
A fun tale of a captured octopus who escapes his aquarium, and manages to return to his beloved cave below the sea. With beautiful illustrations by Felicita Sala.
The book includes some factual information about octopi and I know they are very smart and great escape artists. But I would have liked to know if this story was based on a real octopus. There was no author's note at the end; nothing to encourage further reading about the octopus. I guess the story just left me wanting to know a little bit more about this specific octopus. I think Inky's Amazing Escape by Sy Montgomery might be a better choice for an octopus escape tale. Or at least read the boo...
What a darling story with such vivid fun illustrations I had the chance to watch this book during a read-aloud at our store and the young children were just riveted! Great read-aloud for so many ages.
Do you remember Hank in Finding Dory? If he was a favorite character of your children (or you!), then this book is going to be a lot of fun.For the full review: https://twobookwormsblog.wordpress.co...
Love! Such a poignant story about an octopus, who loves his home, but is one day captured and sent to live in aquarium. He misses his home and gets tired of each day being the same in his small tank. He longs to break free and go home.
Nicely written, well illustrated, but I think I'd pick a nonfiction version of the story instead, like Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home.
An octopus is tricked by a glove and is taken from his ocean home to an aquarium, where he eats the same thing every day, takes different tests, and takes pictures of people visitors. He figures out a way to get out of his tank and makes the long journey back home. While it is a story, this book shows how smart an octopus is with its changing shape and color. Really makes you feel for the animals in zoos and aquariums...
An octopus is captured and sent to an aquarium. Readers see this from the octopus' point of view. They watch as it endures being in a small space and being bored with the routine. It escapes and returns home to finish the book.Brightly colored illustrations bring the characters to life.
Hurray for Octopus! This story dramatizes the cruelty of capturing animals and displaying them in glass cages for human amusement. Fortunately, the cephalopod is smarter than his human captors and makes a daring escape to freedom. If only the sad sharks could pull off a similar feat.
One of my favorite cephalopods is the the Giant Red Pacific Octopus, so when I found a book on one of my book review newsletters about an escaping one (and octopuses are fabulous escape artists), I knew I had to get this book! The octopus in this story was happy in his little cave, venturing out to catch mussels and crabs for dinner, and enjoying the "little shivery waves and the big tumbling ones". Suddenly his world is turned upside down when he is one day grabbed by "something new" and ends u...
Clever octopus! Though this has a happy ending, I felt a bit melancholic when I was finished reading. All those other octopodes (and other creatures) who were not free. Good lesson taught in this brightly illustrated book. Be prepared for questions at the end.