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Olivia . . . and the Missing Toy

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Olivia has one toy that she loves more than anything. She feeds him, dresses him and takes him far and wide. So when he disappears, Olivia is FURIOUS!
     She looks under the rug, under the sofa, under the cat. She shouts at Ian and baby William, she cries, she stomps…all to no avail. Then, one dark and stormy night, Olivia hears a noise…Clutching a candelabra, she creeps bravely into her bedroom, and sees an enormous menacing shadow at the wall. Who is this monster, and what is that hanging from his jaws?
     All is resolved peacefully in this entertaining story starring our favorite pig and her favorite toy.
Olivia, like many young pigs, experiences life very intensely. She is utterly obsessed with having her mother make her a red soccer shirt (although the team color is green), until, of course, she discovers that her favorite toy, her very best toy, is missing, at which point she becomes utterly obsessed with finding it. She looks under the rug, the sofa, and the cat. She shouts accusingly at both her younger brother Ian and her baby brother William, who responds with an unsatisfactory “Wooshee gaga.” That night (a dark and stormy one), she hears a horrible sound emanating from in the back of a closed door, and, in a dramatic scene illuminated by her flaming candelabra and showcased in a fold-out spread, she sees the circle of relatives dog Perry chewing her favorite toy to bits. As devastating as that is to a passionate young pig, “even Olivia couldn’t stay mad ceaselessly.” She sews up her dismembered toy and falls asleep that very night cozied up with both it and the toy-wrecking Perry. The New Yorker cartoonist and Caldecott Honor artist Ian Falconer (Olivia, 2001) fills his pages with delightful visual stunts, such as the time-lapse drawings of Olivia waiting and waiting and looking forward to her mom to sew her soccer shirt and the exaggeratedly scary shadow the toy-eating dog casts at the wall. Olivia fans will rejoice to see their favorite pig being her usual extreme self. (Ages 4 to 8) –Karin Snelson

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