The Octopus Escapes Winter The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once

The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires once again captivate their young audience with this beautifully illustrated introduction to Norse legends

birds & bugs on the sturdy and thick tiles

What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield

With an embossed cover

With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on London

The Octopus Escapes Winter The Caldecott medal-winning d'Aulaires onceBy Maile Meloy, Author & Felicita Sala, Illustrator. The octopus is happy in his undersea cave until one day, a diver captures him and takes him to live in an aquarium. The humans give him food and tests that look like toys. But every day is the same, and the octopus soon tires of captive life. And so, under the cover of darkness, he makes his daring escape Maile Meloy and Felicita Sala bring us a story full of excitement and heart, about the thrill