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Oliver. By Birgitta Sif (2012)

by Birgitta Sif(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1406337978 (ISBN13: 9781406337976)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Walker & Company

review 1: Pale green endpapers with framed pictures of Oliver, and various animals. The author has returned to her native homeland of Iceland and produced this gem of a story about a boy who feels different than the rest until he meets a soul mate with his same interests and imagination. The illustrations are mostly full-bleed with some cutout narrative illustrations as well. Oliver's friends are his books and his puppets.I love the middle opening with the tennis ball bouncing away. Great anticipation builder! This opens a good discussion of finding friends with common interests and how we all feel a little different at times.
review 2: My five-year-old son picked this book out from our local library yesterday. Oliver is a perfectly told story. It is beautifully paced a... morend flows. It has a strong beginning, climax and ending (or second beginning). There are exactly the right number of words on the pages for bedtime reading. It is everything I would look for in a picture book, except the actual story itself. Had I read the synopsis, "This is a picture book about a lonely boy who plays with puppets," I would have left the book on the shelf. And that would have been a mistake. Sometimes something is so brilliant that it can overcome our prejudices. The artwork, and the illustrations are art, is exactly perfect for this exactly perfect little picture book. less

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