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Octopus Alone
Author:
Srinivasan, Divya
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Class:
Easy
Age: 3-6
Language: English
Descriptors: Picture Book
Demand: Moderate
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LC: PZ7
Grade: P-1
Print Run: 35000
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ISBN-13: 9780670785155
LCCN: 2012029678
Imprint: Viking
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Pub Date: 05/16/2013
Availability: Available
List: $18.99
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Hardcover Reinforced
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 28 cm.
H 9.75",
W 11",
D 0.36",
1.0875 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's For Youth Interest Titles
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
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Starred Reviews:
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TIPS Subjects:
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Fish
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Marine Life
JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship
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LC Subjects:
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Bashfulness, Fiction
Marine animals, Fiction
Octopuses, Fiction
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SEARS Subjects: |
Marine animals, Fiction
Octopuses, Fiction
Shyness, Fiction
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Reading Programs: |
Accelerated Reader Level:
3.3
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Points: 0.5
Lexile Level:
590
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 05/01/2013 |
| Wandering away from the bustling reef is a dream come true for Octopus. Before long, though, loneliness sets in. Can shy Octopus find her way back to her friends? 40pp., Color Ill. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2013 |
| 3. Shy Octopus is approached by several inquisitive seahorses that won't be shooed away. Avoiding the attention, she ends up in the dark depths where she enjoys solitude--until she misses company. The observation that it's nice to be alone sometimes is keen, as is the simple resolution that sometimes it isn't. Background colors in Srinivasan's bold illustrations represent changing ocean light marvelously. keh. 40pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 04/01/2013 |
| Shy Octopus flees the sea horses who dance into her cozy cave, but the deeper ocean is lonely and a little scary, so she returns to her friends in the lively reef. Srinivasan follows her debut, Little Owl's Night (2011), with a similarly striking rendition of the marine world in this no-place-like-home tale. Her story opens with a cast of characters, reef inhabitants, that are identified on the end papers. Readers will be able to point them out as Octopus makes the traditional picture-book journey on pages whose backgrounds range from varying shades of blue and green to the near-black of the ocean depths. With frames, full-page and double-page spreads and even a fold-out starring a whale, the artist varies her images to add interest and show the passage of time. In spite of eyelashes that defy the usual understanding of the differences between mammals and cephalopods and the anthropomorphic plot, this sweet story is relatively accurate in its depiction of octopus behavior and reef ecology. The octopus changes color to blend into her environment several times, squirts ink to hide and escape, and lurks in caves. There are predators and prey, but, appropriately for the intended audience, no one gets eaten. A gentle, positive story set in a world far less scary than that of Pixar's Nemo. (Picture book. 3-7). 40pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 04/08/2013 |
| Ages 3-5. Cantaloupe-colored Octopus "was shy and did not like to be noticed," writes Srinivasan, and to avoid mingling with the many genial extroverts who share her reef, she employs all of her natural abilities: fast getaways, hiding, blending in with her surroundings, and squirting black ink. Determined "to get away, far from goggling eyes" she leaves the sunlit, aqua waters of the reef for the ocean's lonely black depths, where she realizes that she may not have such a low tolerance for companionship after all. Srinivasan's storytelling feels a tad overwritten compared to her breakout debut, Little Owl's Night, but her artistry is the farthest thing from a sophomore slump. From the bustling reef with its cheery, diverse inhabitants to the "magnificent storm of bubbles" that unfolds in the wake of a breaching whale (depicted in a vertical gatefold), every page is stunner. And while Octopus may be shy, her cuddly intrepidness, sweet big eyes, and flirty lashes make her an irresistible tour guide through Srinivasan's beautiful, briny deep. Agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. (May). 40p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 06/01/2013 |
| PreS-Gr 2. As she did in last year's sweetly graphic Little Owl's Night (Viking, 2011), Srinivasan again produces a visually appealing story of a young animal finding its way in the big wide world. In this case, a bashful, doe-eyed orange octopus ventures away from home to escape the friendly enthusiasm of three seahorses. Charmingly stylized sea creatures (helpfully labeled in the delightful endpapers) float through an aqua-and-purple waterscape with an occasionally confusing perspective that renders the seahorses tiny on one page and larger than our timid heroine on the next. Reserved or introspective children may sympathize with the octopus, who employs authentic octopus tricks like camouflaging her color and squirting ink at the boisterous trio before escaping to deeper waters; even more readers could benefit from a reminder that not everyone always wants to play. But the narrative does not quite cohere and the paean to shyness gets lost in marine diversions: drifting jellyfish, an attacking eel, a breaching whale that earns a gatefold. After restoring herself with quiet and a solo jig, the octopus wishes for companionship and the text concludes that she is "glad to be back with her friends." Once readers realize that the seahorses she avoided, fled, and squirted are her friends, this final line provides a pleasant resolution as well as gentle encouragement for the bashful among us to dip a toe-or tentacle-into the ocean of sociability. Robbin E. Friedman, Chappaqua Library, NY. 40p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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