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
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3-Olivia is back, the indomitable
individualist now coaxing her mother to make her a new soccer
uniform in red, not the "really unattractive green" of the rest of
the team. During the sewing session, Olivia''s stuffed animal
disappears and the fearless piglet must solve the mystery. She
eventually tracks it down, but it is now in pieces, courtesy of the
dog. Olivia''s tears are surprisingly easily diverted by her
father''s glib promise from behind the newspaper to replace it with
"the very best toy in the whole world," but the independent
protagonist resews it herself and even improves on the original.
Once again, the illustrations are stylish and witty, now extended
by the addition of green to Falconer''s trademark
charcoal-and-gouache black, white, and red palette. The inclusion
of photographic reproductions the sphinx in a dream and Martha
Graham on the bedroom wall adds a nice contrast, and the endpapers
show a comic strip of the little pig trying to get her toy to sit
up. The changes in the size of the typeface to indicate volume of
speech as Olivia interrogates her little brothers, and as her
distress escalates, are hilarious. But the plot meanders a little,
and it seems as though Falconer is letting style overtake story.
Olivia is in danger of starting to appear more like a bratty bully
than the charming nonconformist we know and love. Still, her many
fans will enjoy this latest adventure of the piglet turned
detective.
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