OLIVIA AND THE MISSING TOY
Ian Falconer, . . Atheneum/Schwartz, $16.95 (42pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85291-6
The porcine star who burst onto the children's books stage in black and white—plus her favorite color, red—is back! Here Falconer adds green to his palette and mystery to the plot for this third adventure featuring the incomparable Olivia. However, "green is not Olivia's color." So she entreats her mother to make a red soccer jersey to replace her team's green one. "But then you'll look different from everyone else on the team," says her mother. "That's the point," retorts the heroine in an oversize font. While her mother sews, Olivia's beloved green-and-red toy (who makes a comical cameo appearance in a wordless vignette on the endpapers) disappears with the turn of a page. (A clue appears in the lower right-hand corner of the illustration, where the toy is last seen.) It won't give away the fun to say that Perry—the spotted, panting pooch introduced in
Reviewed on: 09/01/2003
Genre: Children's
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