Olivia Forms a Band

by Ian Falconer, Ian Falconer (Illustrator)

Overview

Ian Falconer's OLIVIA FORMS BAND plus CD for only $12.99

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416980377
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	10/27/2009
Series:	Olivia the Pig Series
Edition description:	Book and CD
Pages:	50
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Ian Woodward Falconer (1959–2023) was an author and illustrator of children’s books, including the beloved Olivia series, and a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He created thirty covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications.

Ian Woodward Falconer (1959–2023) was an author and illustrator of children’s books, including the beloved Olivia series, and a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He created thirty covers for The New Yorker as well as other publications.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

August 25, 1959

Place of Birth:

Ridgefield, Connecticut

Education:

Studied art history at New York University and painting at Parsons School of Design and Otis Art Institute

Editorial Reviews

Ever the pig-with-a-plan, Olivia fashions a one-man band when she learns there won't be one at the evening's fireworks show. Her scheme involves bribing her brothers with milk and cookies for their toy instruments and rigging them together with Daddy's suspenders-a theft that reveals her stunned father's polka-dot boxers. Witty charcoal drawings with dollops of color highlight Olivia's irrepressible antics, from trying Mom's scarlet lipstick to sporting candy-striped tights under the Supreme Court Justice robe she wears in her dreams. Nothing is beyond this precocious piglet. (Ages 4 to 6)
Child magazine's Best Children's Book Awards 2006

Falconer adds a new color for this fourth offering in readers' long-standing love affair with the inimitable Olivia-and she still rules. The occasion is a family outing to a fireworks display. Disappointed that there will be no band, Olivia decides to make her own. Deserted by her disobliging family, she spends the day hilariously rounding up all the instruments necessary to turn herself into a one-pig band. "To Olivia, she sounded just like a real band." (Cue the double-page fold-out in "Tempo marziale.") At departure time, Olivia decides to abandon the band and apply makeup. Amazing makeup. This evokes a rare, blunt response from Everymom: " . . . you're gorgeous! Now wipe that glop off your face." After the most glorious of sunsets and magical fireworks displays, the exhausted family is home to bed, where Olivia dreams yet another BIG dream with herself seated self-assuredly in-well, we won't spoil the surprise. So consummately consistent are Falconer's characterizations and so perceptive are Olivia's constant fans, that every deft facial nuance will be met with squeals of approval for the most popular pig in America-and her long-suffering mother. (Picture book. 4+)

Kirkus Reviews