Cowboy and Octopus
By Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith (Illustrator)
(Viking Juvenile, Hardcover, 9780670910588, 40pp.)
Publication Date: September 6, 2007
Categories: Humorous Stories, Social Issues - Friendship
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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.
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