Everyone Wants an Octopus Book!

Regular price €18.50
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781761210846
  • Weight: 342g
  • Dimensions: 232 x 283mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: AU
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Everyone Wants an Octopus Book! is a great conversation-starting children's book about representation. Inky is down in the dumps because he can’t find a book with a character like himself. There are bears and ducks and dogs, but no octopuses.

Inky the octopus wants to read a book with a character that looks like them. With their best friend, Quack the duck, they scour every shelf, but all they seem to find are more books about ducks! Why aren't there any stories with octopuses? They decide maybe it’s time for one.

Wonderfully illustrated by Makoto Koji, a talented Japanese-Australian illustrator and animator, Everyone Wants an Octopus Book! is a humourous, accessible and broadly-appealing story that just happens to carry a worthy message, from two Australian emerging creators.

For ages 3-9 years.

Liz Ledden is a Sydney-based children’s book author and podcaster. She has published two picture books, Walking Your Human (Larrikin House) and Tulip and Brutus (Ford Street). Liz also co-hosts kids’ book podcast One More Page with her friends, authors and book lovers Kate Simpson and Nat Amoore. Together, the One More Page team contributed a kids’ play to the Children's Book Council of Australia anthology OLD WORLDS, NEW WORLDS, OTHER WORLDS. Makoto Koji is a Japanese-Australian illustrator and animator. She was born in Hiroshima in the Year of the Rabbit and was raised in the wilderness of rural Queensland. Her work draws from her unique upbringing, a blend of Eastern and Western sensibilities. She lives in Adelaide in South Australia.