Over and over again, opus has listened quietly as Grandma read him his favorite bedtime story about the moon, the mice, the mittens, and the boat. But when she begins the story for the two hundred and tenth time, Opus decides to finish the story his way, "departing the text" in a grand search for adventure.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1997 by Little, Brown & Company .

Berkeley Breathed lives and works in Santa Barbara, California and is the proud owner of a gentle pit bull named Ridley, a deaf dachshund named Milly, and a refugee mutt from the Puerto Rican streets named Pilar--splendidly flawed dogs, every one.