Inky's Great Escape

The Incredible (and Mostly True) Story of an Octopus Escape

Casey Lyall

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Sebastià Serra

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Inky's Incredible Idea for an Ingenious Escape.
Based on a true story, this tale follows a daring, Houdini-esque octopus as he performs his greatest escape act yet.

In April 2016, The New York Times published an article about an octopus named Inky who escaped from the National Aquarium of New Zealand through a drainpipe and into the sea. In this charming fictionalized account, Inky, worn out from his exciting life in the ocean, has retired to the aquarium. There he quietly plays cards, makes faces at the visitors, and regales his tankmate Blotchy with tales of his past adventures. Then Blotchy dares Inky to make one more great escape: out of their tank. Will Inky succeed?

Product Details

Publisher	Sterling Children's Books
Publish Date	November 07, 2017
Pages	32
Language	English
Type	Hardback
EAN/UPC	9781454926351
Dimensions	9.1 X 10.2 X 0.5 inches \| 0.8 pounds

BISAC Categories: Kids , Kids

Product Details

Publisher	Sterling Children's Books
Publish Date	November 07, 2017
Pages	32
Language	English
Type	Hardback
EAN/UPC	9781454926351
Dimensions	9.1 X 10.2 X 0.5 inches \| 0.8 pounds

BISAC Categories: Kids , Kids

About the Author

Casey Lyall is a writer from Southwestern Ontario. She works at her local library where she runs a number of teen groups and waits for management to discover they're actually paying her to have fun. She is the author of Howard Wallace P.I. and Shadow of a Pug: Howard Wallace P.I. 2 (both Sterling). You can find her on Twitter as @CKLyall and at caseylyall.com.

Sebastià Serra hails from Barcelona, Spain, where he studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines and on television. Sebastià has illustrated a number of picture books in Spain and in the US, including A Pirate's Night Before Christmas and A Pirate's Twelve Days of Christmas by Philip Yates. His work has also been displayed in exhibitions all over the world, including the US, Italy, Japan, China, and Korea.

Reviews

"Few stories of animal escapades rival octopus escapes for mind-boggling fun. Lyall embellishes wildly on the story of Inky, who broke out of a New Zealand aquarium in 2016. This Inky is a raconteur and a patient opportunist who escapes on a dare from his tankmate, Blotchy. Inky's physical feats are, of course, incredible: He makes himself "flat as a piece of seaweed," then coils his body into a rope, slipping down the drain and out to the ocean. With Technicolor flair, Serra's madcap cartoony illustrations rev up the story even more." --The New York Times

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