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Description for Octopus Soup
Hardcover. Num Pages: 24 pages. BIC Classification: YFP. .
Early one morning an octopus leaves the safety of his parents’ home and sets out on the adventure of his life. He climbs into a boat, hides in a tackle box, gets thrown to shore, scuttles to a restaurant, plunges into a water pitcher, escapes from a greedy chef, hides among some melons, gets chased back to the ocean, narrowly avoids being made into Octopus Soup, and finally swims home to his mom’s loving tentacles. With graphic, digital artwork, Mercer Mayer takes you on a wordless journey you’ll never forget!
Early one morning an octopus leaves the safety of his parents’ home and sets out on the adventure of his life. He climbs into a boat, hides in a tackle box, gets thrown to shore, scuttles to a restaurant, plunges into a water pitcher, escapes from a greedy chef, hides among some melons, gets chased back to the ocean, narrowly avoids being made into Octopus Soup, and finally swims home to his mom’s loving tentacles. With graphic, digital artwork, Mercer Mayer takes you on a wordless journey you’ll never forget!
Product Details
Publisher
Two Lions
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
24
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780761458128
SKU
V9780761458128
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Mercer Mayer
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Octopus Soup
“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 ... Read more