Cowboy and Octopus maintain their friendship despite different opinions about things like beans and knock-knock jokes

Four separate stories celebrate the many-legged friendship between Squid and Octopus as they disagree over how to stay warm, encourage each other, and fret over the contents of a fortune cookie

Worried about his new friend, a shy octopus named Ollie, Penguin recruits the other animals to help look for him, and discovers something more precious than treasure.

Ramsey dons his superhero cape to rescue Grandma from the huge octopus she is trying to cook--or is he simply telling a story? Includes author's note on the story's origin and a recipe for Octopus stew.

"An octopus is taken from his undersea home to live in an aquarium, but he soon tires of captive life"--

"Puffer Fish wakes up one morning to find that his pirate underwear has been taken from the clothesline! So Octopants the octopus offers to help look for them. They check Lobster's Laundry, look through Mermaid's hair, and even stop by Mussel's Fitness Club, but the underwear isn't anywhere ... Then Shark appears and wants to join the group. But what's that on her head?"--

All is quiet in the deep blue sea until a tiny pink fish is mistaken for something scary. EEK! There's a great big fish hiding in the deep! A rumor grows, and readers discover a color with every new fish entangled in the mayhem. The red octopus was really rattled, which petrified the purple fish and startled the blue shoal. Soon, the whole ocean is stirred into a frenzy and flees into a deep, dark cave. But, uh-oh! That's no cave at all!