An Octopus Followed Me Home is a 1997 American children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Dan Yaccarino.

[1] The book has been adapted by Yaccarino into an animated television series called, Willa's Wild Life, directed by Steve Sullivan.

The book tell the story of a young girl who takes a green octopus home.

When the girl asks her father if she can keep the octopus in the bathtub, he tells her about all the other animals he let her keep and all the sacrifices he made.

The saddened girl returns the green octopus back to the ocean, but becomes happy again when a gray dinosaur follows her home.