An absolutely adorable children's book recounting Inky the Octopus' great escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand in 2016. With simple rhymes, easy words, and an utterly cute anthropomorphic protagonist, this book is sure to delight children and adults.

The back of the book includes a text-dense recounting of the actual escape with the humor of the original news articles. There are also miniature stories of other aquarium octopi being mischievous, and interesting factoids about octopi that basically prepare us for the coming cephalopodacoplyse (seriously, they are very smart and bent on world domination). I liked that there was a bibliography at the end, but it's fairly basic and mainly references the news articles featured in the story.

5 stars because Inky is so damn cute.

I received this ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.