Squid Kite, Octopus Kite

by Junko Takabatake

illus. by Jun Takabatake

One day, a squid was flying a kite when an octopus shouted angrily: “Hey, squid! Stop flying that kite!”
The squid replied, “I’m not flying a kite—this is a squid kite!” As the squid and octopus bickered, the other animals gathered around. “It’s a kite… but it’s a squid?” “It’s a squid… but it’s a kite?” The animals were completely confused by this silly wordplay. As the argument between the squid and the octopus started heating up, things got even sillier. A nonsensical, laugh-out-loud tale of squid, octopus, and their tangled wordplay over “tako.”

23 x 20cm cm, 32 pages,
First published November 2024