Children’s author Rebecca Fung joins us for a launch event of Septopus. Get a free shark pen with your purchase of a book.

Septopus is about a seven-tentacled octopus called Stanley. Seven tentacles, you say? Don’t octopuses have eight tentacles?

That’s right, most do. In fact all of them do … except Stanley. That’s why Stanley’s life is a bit difficult. It’s hard to live in a world that’s built for the eight-tentacled when you’ve got only seven. Even though you and I would think “Seven tentacles – that’s a lot!”, octopuses look at Stanley and think “You haven’t got enough arms and legs, Stanley!”

But Stanley’s just trying to live a normal life – sport, finding friends, going to parties, working out school and figuring out his family. That is, if only other sea animals would stop trying to remind him that he’s not their idea of normal.

This is a free in-store event at BOOK FACE St Ives.