#MiddleGradeMay Update! So I just "finished" Oliver and the Sea Monkeys by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, and it was EXACTLY the same as Oliver and the Seawigs. From my last post, I know from @jabberworks (Sarah McIntyre) that their U.S. Publishers were responsible for the title change. 🤔 Why Yearling Humor?! . . . . I personally like the Oliver and the Seawigs title from @randomhousekids better than Oliver and the Sea Monkeys, especially because the Seawigs are uber-important to the story, while the Sea Monkeys are secondary - or even tertiary - characters at best! 😠 . . . . Also, though the art was the same, I like it better in Oliver and the Seawigs, too. There, it was blue, black, and white. In Oliver and the Sea Monkeys, it was just black and white. 😑 . . . . But the story was exactly the same. If you can't see the note on the bottom of Oliver and the Sea Monkeys in Photo One above, scroll to Photo Two, where you can see it close-up. . I'll only rate Oliver and the Seawigs on Goodreads - 5⭐, as indicated earlier - because I didn't truly read Oliver and the Sea Monkeys. Once I realized that the text and illustrations were the same, I just went through both books to make sure all the text matched up in both books. And it did. 😊 . . . . No Max in this post. 😔 He's in his crate in our room because he was being inexplicably vexing about 10 minutes ago. 😠😔😣 . . . . #NoDogsInThisPost #bookstagram #PhilipReeve @thesolitarybee #SarahMcIntyre #books #OliverandtheSeawigs #OliverandtheSeaMonkeys #series #NotSoImpossibleTales