Plush toys, picture books, documentaries and now the great novel “Because there was something in the water”: Why the octopus, of all things, is so popular right now.
Maybe it started in the children’s rooms. Octopuses have been sitting in the beds and shelves there for five or six years. Octopuses made of plush, plastic and printed on paper; Not a children’s book season goes by without a handful of new releases about octopuses. Little octopuses looking for a new home, clever octopuses escaping from aquariums, lovely octopuses making friends with people. The new picture book by the German illustrator star Nikolaus Heidelbach is also about an octopus. Kids love octopuses, or rather, their parents do.