Mercer Mayer has published more than three hundred books, including the popular Little Critter® and Little Monster® series and There’s a Nightmare in my Closet. With Octopus Soup, Mercer returns to his roots, since his first book, A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog, published in 1967, was completely wordless. He and his wife, Gina, his sometimes collaborator, live in New England.
