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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Iacobus | May 12, 2009 |   Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good. The book is about pig dressing up, singing songs, building sand castles, napping (maybe), dancing, painting on walls and going to sleep at last. Viktoriya | Apr 22, 2009 | Typical day of an active child who happens to be pig. (  )raizel | Mar 6, 2009 | Illustrations are fun, I particularly appreciated the black/white/red color scheme. Highly recommended to 4-6 year-old girls. Olivia is a lovable character. (  )kdemott | Feb 27, 2009 | Olivia written and illustrated by Ian Falconer. I like this book because it is very funny. It is about a little pig named Olivia who is very funny. She does a lot of things that wear people out and some times she even wears herself out. She has a little brother named Ian. He is always copying her and she has to be firm sometimes. She lives with her mom, dad, her brother, her dog Perry and her cat Edwin. She has a morning routine. When she gets dressed she has to try on everything. When her, her mom and Ian go to the beach Olivia wants to build a sand castles. Last summer her mom taught her how to make sand castles. Olivia got very good. It seems like Olivia is never tired. So at bed time she asks her mother if they can read a book. But Olivia wants to read five. She is so funny. This is one of my favorite books . Reviewed by Emma. matinicuselementary | Jan 8, 2009 | 0.085 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0689829531, Hardcover)Olivia would be Eloise, if Eloise were a pig. She is good at singing 40 very loud songs and is very good at wearing people out. And scaring the living daylights out of her little brother, Ian, particularly when he copies her every move. She is also quite skilled at reproducing Jackson Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm #30" on the walls at home. When her mother tucks her in at night and says, "You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway," Olivia precociously pronounces, "I love you anyway too."The New Yorker artist Ian Falconer's endearing charcoal portraits of his porcine heroine are spotted with fire-engine red gouache in all the right places--perhaps a tribute to Hilary Knight's red, pink, white, and black celebrations of Olivia's human counterpart? When she dresses up, the bow on her ears, her red lipstick, and her high-heeled shoes are all red. (The only time her shades-of-gray body is pink is when she is sunburned and the area where her bathing suit was is white!) Falconer does a fine job of letting the spare text set up the jokes for the visual punch lines--a dryly humorous interplay that adults will appreciate as much as children. Preschoolers (and their parents) will see themselves in Olivia--a typical high-energy, over-the-top kid who likes the beach and Degas paintings, but hates naps. On the other hand, she combs her ears and is unusually gifted at sandcastle building. While we are certainly reminded of Eloise, Falconer's portrait is simpler in scope, less demented, and, as a result, less adult. Bottom line: precocious is fun, and we're tickled pink to have Olivia join the parade of, let's just say, individualistic youngsters. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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From a parent's point of view, Olivia is also a lot of fun. Who couldn't relate to the trials of Olivia's mother as she loves and cares for her piglet?
And as for the cultural asides (New York cosmopolitan, as one reviewer here termed it), these are great. Adults, of course, will appreciate them. They also form the cultural backdrop that widens the horizons of kids - essential fare. Of course, few children (and perhaps not heaps of adults) will get all the cultural refs and debates packed into a reference to Jackson Pollock and Olivia's attempt to imitate him. But these references bubble away in a child's awareness to develop into a familiarity with the wider world and its culture. Falconer is not heavy-handed in the way he does it, but the book is an education as well as entertainment. (