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Also an octopus : or, a little bit of nothing / Maggie Tokuda-Hall ; illustrated by Benji Davies.

by Tokuda-Hall, Maggie.

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Candlewick Press, c2016.

Octopuses -- Juvenile fiction.

Imagination -- Juvenile fiction.

Imagination in children -- Juvenile fiction.

Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.

Fantasy -- Juvenile fiction

Alternate title:

Little bit of nothing

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

A ukulele-playing octopus tries to fulfill his dream of space travel by building an awesome purple spaceship, in an imaginative story that offers itself as an example of how readers can create stories of their own. 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.

Preschool picture book.

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