Inky’s Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home

Inky’s Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home
by Sy Montgomery (author), and Amy Schimler-Safford (Illustrator)
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books (September 25, 2018), 978-1534401914
Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home

Learn all about Inky the Octopus, an international sensation known for escaping from the New Zealand aquarium in April 2016, in this fascinating picture book from National Book Award nominee and octopus expert Sy Montgomery.

Inky had been at the New Zealand aquarium since 2014 after being taken in by a fisherman who found him at sea. Inky had been getting used to his new environment, but the staff quickly figured out that he had to be kept amused or he would get bored. Then one night in 2016 Inky, about the size of a basketball, decided he’d had enough. He slithered eight feet across the floor and down a drainpipe more than 160 feet long to his home in the sea. With gorgeous, colorful illustrations by Amy Schimler-Safford, this is the true story of smart youngster who—like the book’s young readers—was born to explore.