- Comedy
- Picture Books
- Ages 3–6
The shape of it
The shape of this universe.
Octopants is Suzy Senior and Claire Powell's silly rhyming picture-book franchise about an octopus with an extremely practical problem: ordinary pants are not made for eight legs. The books are bright, warm and deliberately ridiculous, with underwater shopping, pirate pants, pufferfish friendship and a lot of underwear-based comedy. Underneath the silliness are gentle themes of fitting in, finding your own solution and making friends, but the main appeal is very clear: funny rhyme, expressive sea creatures and the word pants.
A laugh-out-loud rhyming picture-book series about an octopus, his pants problem and a missing pair of pirate pants.
Primary themes
Tone palette
- Funny
- Silly
- Warm
- Whimsical
The series
One way in.
Cultural footprint
A shelf of evidence.
Cultural ubiquity
2/ 5A working classic for readers in the know.
Sensitivity
Low, and collection-wide.
Across the collection
All 2 books.
About the creator