COWBOY AND OCTOPUS Publisher: Viking Books; 40 pages; ISBN: 978-0670910588
COWBOY and Octopus (both cut-out figures whose poses are fixed throughout the story) are an unlikely pair, the situations are absurd and the conversations bizarre and random, but all the better to stress the book’s message that true friendship transcends differences, the strangest quirks and most trying habits and scenarios. Sure, it doesn’t always make sense but then neither does life. Scieszka and Smith’s latest collaboration is one of my favourite picture books of 2007.
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