Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home

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Montgomerys expertise and the gorgeous illustrations make this a fine purchase for libraries serving early elementary students. School Library Journal

The mixed-media illustrations make good use of dynamic spreads, color, and textureperfect for a book on a master of camouflage. Montgomery seamlessly incorporates interesting facts about octopuses into the narrative. Booklist

Learn all about Inky the Octopus, an international sensation known for escaping from the New Zealand aquarium in April 2016, in this fascinating picture book from National Book Award nominee and octopus expert Sy Montgomery.

Inky had been at the New Zealand aquarium since 2014 after being taken in by a fisherman who found him at sea. Inky had been getting used to his new environment, but the staff quickly figured out that he had to be kept amused or he would get bored. Then one night in 2016 Inky, about the size of a basketball, decided hed had enough. He slithered eight feet across the floor and down a drainpipe more than 160 feet long to his home in the sea.

Acclaimed author Sy Montogmery reminds readers that Inky didnt escapebut instead, like the curious animal he is, wanted to explore the rest of the vast ocean he called his home.

Author Bio

Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of thirty-one acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, includingThe Hummingbirds Gift, the National Book Award finalistThe Soul of an Octopus,and the memoirThe Good Good Pig, which was aNew York Timesbestseller. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association, she lives in New Hampshire with her husband, writer Howard Mansfield, and a border collie.

Amy Schimler-Saffordstarted her career in textile and surface design. She now illustrates childrens books and lives on a lake in Georgia with her family and lots of country critters, all of whom provide Amy with a constant source of amusement and inspiration.