The Boy and the Octopus

　　史坦利很愛他的玩具章魚，他覺得章魚最棒的能力，就是當有可怕的威脅靠近，章魚會改變顏色隱藏自己。有時候史坦利好希望自己也能像章魚一樣，擁有隱身消失的能力……當爸爸關心地問起史坦利為什麼心情不好，史坦利想告訴爸爸關於那些欺負他的孩子，還有那些人對他的嘲笑和行為，他想像章魚一樣融入環境不被注意到，但不知道把他的感受怎麼說出來。
 
　　面對同儕霸凌時，該如何保護自己？色彩鮮豔的插圖，搭配貼近孩子常見的煩惱主題，鼓勵小讀者練習表達自己的感受，學著面對問題，且不因他人嘲笑而否定自己，找到自我肯定的方式。

A magical tale of finding your voice and becoming yourself.

　　Stanley loves his octopus toy, and dreams of the magical way its skin changes colour; how it hides itself when something scary comes along. In fact, sometimes Stanley wants to be like his octopus and disappear.

　　But Stanley learns how to share his feelings in more than words, and to face difficulties through the power of self-expression and creativity.

　　A lyrical and emotional story about overcoming bullies and being proud to be seen by the creators of The Boy Who Dreamed Dragons.

Caryl Lewis is an award-winning Welsh-language writer across adults', young adults' and children's books, winning Wales Book of the Year twice, has also written extensively for cinema and television, notably adapting for film her own novel which won six Welsh Baftas and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2010 Celtic Media Festival. Her TV credits include the Welsh scripts for the internationally successful bilingual crime series set in Wales Y Gwyll / Hinterland, broadcast in over twenty countries. She is currently making her English-language debut.

Carmen Saldana lives in Gijon, a little rainy city in the north of Spain. She loves furry animals, birds, bugs, leaves and everything related with nature, her main source of inspiration for her illustrations.