Tom Octopus
Gaëtan Dorémus

The moving, poetic story of a boy turned into an octopus trying to find his way into the unknown universe of the sea.

Tom is playing with his friends on the beach when he sees a crab and follows it in the water. When he dives, he finds himself transformed into an octopus! With only his shorts left, off he his, exploring with curiosity the beauty of the seabed. There he hides from a moray, learns how to defend himself and, most of all, makes friends with a whole family of fish. When he safely returns to his human form, Tom has lost his shorts, but won an underwater family…

This touching, textless friendship story between beings who should never have met is also an extraordinary exploration of the dangerous and magic depths of the sea.

Gaëtan Dorémus
The author and illustrator

Gaëtan Dorémus was born in Lille. Since 2000, he has written and illustrated over twenty books published by Rouergue, Autrement, Albin Michel Jeunesse, Les Fourmis rouges. His book Chagrin d’ours was one of the New York Times’ Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2012 and Frigo vide was awarded the Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2015.

He also taught illustration at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts for 10 years.

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