Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud

September 1, 2006
PreS-Gr 2 -Octavia Octopus and her marine friends like to play a game called -how to hide from a hungry creature. - When Octavia boasts that she can squirt a purple ink cloud to help her escape, all she can manage are yellow, orange, green, red, and blue ink clouds. But practice makes perfect, and when a hungry shark looms up and the other creatures hide, Octavia manages to squirt a big dark purple cloud and escapes in the nick of time. Large, bright, sometimes garish illustrations show the underwater animals in detail. A page on camouflage and protection and other -fun facts - about the octopus help make this a learning tool for classrooms. Less-well-advised is a -Color your own ink cloud - craft page, intended to be copied or downloaded, which is an open invitation for the first enthusiastic young patron to ruin the book. Strictly additional." -Sally R. Dow, Ossining Public Library, NY"

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