Product Description:

Olivia, like many young pigs, experiences life very intensely. She is utterly obsessed with having her mother make her a red soccer shirt (even though 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 behind a closed door, and, in a dramatic scene illuminated by her flaming candelabra and showcased in a fold-out spread, she sees the family dog Perry chewing her favorite toy to bits. As devastating as this is to a passionate young pig, 'even Olivia couldn't stay mad forever.' 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 waiting for her mom to sew her soccer shirt and the exaggeratedly scary shadow the toy-eating dog casts on the wall. Olivia fans will rejoice to see their favorite pig being her usual extreme self. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: 4.00 out of 5 stars

Rating:

- OLIVIA still the perfect DIVA!
Olivia has been a favorite character within my family and this latest title has been very well received!

The best part of Olivia is her attitude and she is screaming DIVA in this one...she needs to stand out as an individual, she needs to have all her things around her and best of all she forgives and moves on in the end.

The illustrations are beautifully done, the story is one every single child goes through at some point in their life and in the end Olivia...and the Missing Toy is a fantastic book for all ages.

Rating:

- A Questionable Tale
I'm a huge fan of Olivia and was thrilled to browse through this book and then pick up a copy for my nephew. It wasn't until I read it to my husband that I realized what a terrible story this is.

This is a story about a selfish little girl who doesn't take the time to acknowledge her mother's handmade soccer shirt, yet proclaims her father to be the best person in the world when he gives her the promise of the purchase of the best toy ever.

I love Olivia and parts of this book were so, well, Olivia! But I just don't feel the book presents the kind of message I would want my nephew...or my own children...to hear and think is okay.

I returned the book very sad indeed.

Rating:

- Loved it!
We had to go out the day the book came out and buy it. I wasn't dissapointed and neither was the rest of my family. It's another winner, as far as we're concerned. We look forward to more adventures about Olivia--keep it up, Mr. Falconer!

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