Inky’s
Amazing Escape:
How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home
How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home
Author:
Sy Montgomery
Illustrator: Amy
Schimler-Safford
ISBN:
978-1534401914
Publisher: Simon
& Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books (September 25, 2018)
About Sy Montgomery
Sy
Montgomery is a naturalist and author who also calls New Hampshire home. She
writes for adults and children. Full of the passion she has for creatures, her
books fill your brain and tug at your heart.
Website:
http://symontgomery.com/ (be sure to check out the interviews on the “media”
tab)
About Amy Schimler-Safford
Website: https://www.amyschimler.com/
Big Ideas: Determination,
Science of Octopus
Questions: How is an octopus able to squeeze its body
through tiny spaces so easily?
(see Activity: No Bones About It Experiment )
(see Activity: No Bones About It Experiment )
Vocabulary: Morsel, Nook & Cranny, Suckers,
Observed, Aquarium, “Squirt Ink”
Activities:
- Draw an octopus
- Creatures of the Sea Word Scramble
- NoBones About It—Science Experiment
- Octopus at National Geographic Kids
- ExtentionActivities at Scholastic for “The Great Octopus Escape” by Nancy Jang
- 3DPrinter Octopus on Thingiverse
Companion Titles:
- Love Agnes by Irene Latham; illustrated by Thea Baker (Millbrook Press, 2018)
- Good Thing You’re Not an Octopus by Julie Markes; pictures by Maggie Smith (Harper Collins, 2001)
- An Octopus is Amazing by Patricia Lauber; illustrated by Holly Keller (Harper Trophy, 1990)
- Cephalopods: Octopuses, Squids, and their Relatives by Beth Blaxland (Chelsea House, 2003)
- The Mermaid by Jan Brett (G.P. Putnams’s Sons, 2017)
A retelling of the 3 Bears starring octopi
Other Links and Resources:
- Sneaky Octopus video from National Geographic
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