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Random Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures (February 2024)
Random Review Over the Years
Random Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures (February 2024)
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Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...
2) The mermaid
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the ocean off Japan, this retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears stars Kiniro, a mermaid, who finds a baby octopus's breakfast, chair, and bed just right"--
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Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
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Description
When mommy octopus tells little Floyd that it is time for bed, he decides that his parents want help getting their baths and putting on their pajamas (not what Mommy-O meant)--soon all three are covered with water and bubbles, and his parents are so exhausted that they fall asleep before Floyd is in bed.
4) Pen pals
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For an entire school year, Oscar the ant and Bill the octopus send letters to each other as part of a class project. Oscar loves table tennis and Bill loves modeling clay. Oscar does judo, while Bill has a garden. Despite their differences, the two new friends find shared interests...all leading up to one final surprise!"--Jacket flap.
8) My hero
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Awesome Girl, normally disguised as Abigail, an ordinary kid, heroically saves her father from the tentacles of a supervillain, the purple octopus.
10) Octopus's garden
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents a picture book rendering of the classic Beatles song, read by the song's writer.
11) Octopus escapes!
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Octopus slips out of his tank while the aquarium sleeps, teases the animals in the other displays, and leads the security guard on a merry chase.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
All is quiet in the deep blue sea until a tiny pink fish is mistaken for something scary. EEK! There's a great big fish hiding in the deep! A rumor grows, and readers discover a color with every new fish entangled in the mayhem. The red octopus was really rattled, which petrified the purple fish and startled the blue shoal. Soon, the whole ocean is stirred into a frenzy and flees into a deep, dark cave. But, uh-oh! That's no cave at all!
13) Mabel
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about a mermaid named Mabel, who unlike the rest of her family does not have a moustache, and the seven-armed octopus who becomes her friend and helps her see that she is just right the way she is"--
15) Aqua boy
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Island boy Aaron loves the sea. But he's a bit scared of going under the water. Then one day Aaron finds an octopus stranded on the beach. And as he helps Dad return it to the water, something amazing happens a moment of magic between the boy and the octopus. Can Aaron lose his fear and go underwater? Maybe now he can help look after the sea creatures and be Aqua Boy!
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow and imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An octopus falls from the sky one day. It lands on a roof and there it stays. The village's children quickly make friends with it, even though the adults are wary. But the octopus proves very handy indeed, making a perfect slide, helping out with some painting, and even rescuing a cat stuck in a tree. But just when all the neighbors decide they want an octopus of their very own, it disappears. Where has it gone and will it come back?
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A small yellow octopus hatches from his egg and begins searching for something he is certain he is missing on an undersea adventure that leads to new friendships along the coast, an exploration of a sunken shipwreck and the discovery of a loving family"--
18) Dragon dreams
Author
Series
Not-so-tiny tales of Simon Seahorse volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Simon visits a fortune-telling seadragon who gives him an alarming, but incomplete prediction, that his friend Olive the octopus is in danger.
Author
Series
Zeus the mighty volume 5
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Zeus the hamster and his team of Olympians travel to the aquatic realm of Poseidon, where they fight to regain the pufferfish's throne from the usurper Proteus--a mimic octopus and the newest addition to the pet shop.
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