Tangles

After a family visit to a west coast aquarium, Sofia, a young girl, and Abby, her talking rabbit, decide to rescue an unhappy octopus from its aquarium home. Their backyard adventure begins when Sofia's sister, Zo, organizes their stuffed toys for the mission. Sofia's toy octopus, Tangles, joins the fun while Zo's new toy starfish, Astra, her twin teddy bears, and trusty toy rat, Ratena, are enlisted to the team.

Trouble starts when they arrive at the make-believe aquarium located on their gazebo. The aquarium director, a doll named Dr. La Mer, challenges the team to consider whether or not the octopus is really unhappy. an inside game of hide-and-seek leads them to a surprise answer and a wild ride to the ocean.

Don't miss the touching homecoming for both Abby and Tangles.

After growing up on a small farm in Central Pennsylvania, The author spent her career in hard science as a chemist, a teacher, a software engineer and technical manager. Following 25 years with IBM she retired from the computer industry to focus on and enjoy three hobbies - golfing, hiking and writing. Golf is a great physical and social game that offers a challenge with every round. As for hiking, she and her little dog, Bailey, hit nearby wooded trails each morning for exercise, meditation and inspiration. And then there's writing. Cara loves wordplay and has found that writing fantasy, especially with critters as main characters, satisfies the make-believe part of her brain previously overshadowed by a lifetime of science and numbers.She and her husband currently live in Central Texas where they share four children and seven grandchildren who are scattered across the country.

Growing up in Shanghai and attending art school in Hangzhou, Sharon Liú (known then by her Chinese name, Liú Sīyu) always loved illustration but chose a path of oil painting for her undergraduate studies. Moving to the Twin Cities a decade ago and becoming a mother, guiding her children to form their own visual language, she realized her passion for art wasn't limited to painting.Like a lot of 80s kids growing up in China, she had a soft spot for manga and searched for that nice balance between her art school training and that still present childhood illustration dream.Connecting Sofia and Abby's eyes, giving them a similarity where they can share their cute expressions made her fall in love with them. And she hopes that you will as well!