Klyde the Kraken Wants a Friend

★ 2024 Nautilus Book Award Winner ★ 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Winner ★ 2023 Moonbeam Award Winner (Best Picture Book) Dive into the hilarious story of a hug-loving kraken who learns that sometimes it's better to keep your tentacles to yourself. Klyde the kraken loves nothing more than a good hug, but whenever he tries to hug the animals in the ocean, they all swim away. Then one day, the colossal creature's monstrous embrace takes down a pirate ship and the shipwrecked buccaneers surprise Klyde and the reader with a valuable lesson of emotional literacy.