Every story starts with nothing so why not an octopus who wants to fly in a spaceship? A delightfully meta picture book that will set imaginations soaring From Benji Davies the illustrator of The Storm Whale & Grandad's Island comes a metafictive story about how to build a story! First a story needs a character So why not a ukulele-playing octopus? & since this is a story the octopus has to want something
- maybe it dreams of travelling to faraway galaxies in a violet spaceship But every character needs an obstacle to overcome & when the octopus sets out to build its own spaceship out of glue umbrellas glitter & waffles well he doesn't have much luck Could there be another character that could help? Debut author Maggie Tokuda-Hall sets up a funny smart & warm-hearted story all about storytelling then hands the baton to imaginative readers who will be more than prepared to take it away