The story of a picked-on teen struggling through life, armed with a guitar, a pet pufferfish and the occasional chunky muffin shake.
Lucy is an incurably uncool teen, and an octopus. She is so unpopular, even her parents don’t like her! The only friend who will hang out with her is Puffy, her pet puffer fish. But Lucy’s haters don’t know that she is secretly an awesome guitarist. While Lucy rocks at doing her own thing, her classmates realise that spending time with the “cool kids” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…
Richy K. Chandler’s latest graphic novel is a celebration of being who you are, and a story about why it pays to be kind. Bubbling with fun and wit, it will buoy up the self-esteem of children aged 9+, and is a delight to read for big kids of any age.
“Taking that great comic-strip tradition of the loveable loser and then amplifying it to the point of distortion, Lucy the Octopus is, in turns, blackly humorous and actually really rather poignant. An absolute must-read.” – Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
“This is what ‘all ages’ entertainment should always be: full of lessons and laughs for the kids, with more than enough of the same for adults.”
– OpticalSloth.com
