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Cowboy and Octopus
by Jon Scieszka
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.

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Written by Adam C. on 10/31/2008
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This book will be very appealing to kids who have a kind of absurd, silly sense of humor.  I have loved all of the Scieszka/Smith books, and I actually owned a copy of Sitnky Cheese Man ten years before my first child was born.  I was very, very happy to see that my kids giggle about it as much as I do.

And for all of the silliness, the stories actually have nice, meaningful morals to them.

 

The octopus might be a little bit on the scary side for some kids.