Get readya little ink blot is about to become your new best friend

The Rylance family is stuck. Dads got writers block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at schooleven though he cant draw. Sarahs still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom so much more than they can say.

Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylances sketchbook. Then one night the ink of his drawings runs togetherand leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything.

Ethan finds him first. Inkling has absorbed a couple of chapters of his math booknot goodand the story hes supposed to be illustrating for schoolalso not good. But Inklings also started drawing the pictures to go with Ethans story, which is amazing! Its just the help Ethan was looking for! Inkling helps the rest of the family too. For Sarah hes a puppy. And for Dad hes a spark of ideas for a new graphic novel. Its exactly what they all wanted.

Its not until Inkling goes missing that this family is forced to face the larger questions of what theyand Inklingtruly need.

With this book, Kenneth Oppel has given us a small masterpiece of middle-grade fiction. Inkling is funny and fizzy and exciting, and it brims with the kind of interesting ideas and dilemmas that kids will love to wrestle with. And Sydney Smith has created wonderfully inky illustrations to bring the story to vivid life.