This is a great early reader as well as being a fun, simple picture book. Meet Cowboy and Octopus as they begin their friendship. It will take them through the playground, across a few bowls of well-intended beans, around a couple of knock-knock jokes and to the truth. There are seven stories in all, and it’s a book that gives young minds a chance to imagine and grow the story as much as they choose.
40 pages 978-0670910588 Ages 3-5
Keywords: friends, friendship, humor, fun, short stories, 3 year old, 4 year old, 5 year old, octopus, cowboy
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Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and . . . Octopus? Yes, that’s right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus—the next great pair to become a household name. Cowboy likes beans’n’bacon and bacon’n’beans. Octopus eats raw seafood. Octopus prefers knock-knock jokes, but Cowboy doesn’t get them. How will these two ever be friends?
Illustrated in funky, vintage-style cut-outs and told in several humorous mini-stories, the famous Stinky Cheese Man duo of Scieszka and Smith have created sweet—and of course hilarious—tales of an unlikely friendship.---from the publisher
