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Bike to Books 2022 Pre-K to 2nd grade first-place winner: Reading Octopus -- from Multcolib

During May, Multnomah County Library and the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation celebrate National Bike Month with the Bike to Books design contest. Anita’s winning design will be installed on a street near Sellwood-Moreland Library by PBOT striping crews. If you like Anita’s Reading Octopus, you might like these titles too. -Alison K.

Multnomah County Library

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  • Puffer Fish wakes up one morning to find that his pirate underwear is missing, so Octopants the octopus offers to help look for them.
    BookWilton, CT : Tiger Tales, 2022. — jE SENIOR 2022
  • When an octopus falls from the sky, the village's children quickly make friends with this strange creature, until it mysteriously disappears, leaving everyone to wonder where it went.
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2022. — jE BENTLY 2022
  • Arlo likes octopuses but when he tries to draw one his picture does not turn out well at all--or does it?
    BookNew York, NY : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021. — jE MORTENSEN 2021
  • Octicorn dreams of having a pool party. But what if no one comes?
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — jE DILLER 2020
  • Octopus slips out of his tank while the aquarium sleeps, teases the animals in the other displays, and leads the security guard on a merry chase.
    BookWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2018] — jE LACHENMEY 2018
  • It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele and then decides to travel to faraway galaxies …
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016. — jE TOKUDAHAL 2016
  • Although Cowboy and Octopus have different opinions about beans and knock-knock jokes, their friendship endures.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2007. — jE SCIESZKA
  • Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.
    BookAnn Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2017] — jE BRANAM 2017