A 2017 Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner: Picture Books
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.