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Olivia Goes To Venice (2010)

by Ian Falconer(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1416996745 (ISBN13: 9781416996743)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

review 1: Date: September 22nd, 2014Author: Ian Falconer; illustrated by Ian FalconerTitle: Olivia Goes to VenicePlot: Olivia and her family leave home and take a family vacation in Venice!Setting: VeniceCharacters: Olivia; Olivia's Parents; Olivia's two brothersPoint-of-View: Third-Person Theme: Family; Vacation; Destination; TravelStyle: Narrative; Illustrations look similar to Dr. Seuss illustrationsCopyright: 2010Notes: Great to use for discussing Venice and the beautiful city. I love the idea of introducing a book about traveling to my students. The book discusses gelato a lot (Olivia and the family eat a lot of gelato on their trip). This would good to have a lesson where the students learn and make gelato (this lesson could be use in any grade level). The Olivia series is so ... morecute and quite easy to read. I could use this book for preschool students as well.
review 2: Saturday we went back-to-school shopping which meant clothes, new lunch bags, and a visit to a bookstore. My beloved MIL was with us, and as we walked by a display of picture books she said something about missing that, now that the girls are so grown up. "I bring home picture books every time I go to the library" I said, "I read aloud to Tash just yesterday."This is what I read aloud. We both really liked the joke about Olivia and the TSA. We sighed over the pictures, we liked the running gelato gag. But there's a lot less of Olivia's personality in this book, and we missed that. The sites were impressive, but Olivia wasn't imagining herself living in it, so it remains just pretty pictures.We no longer have regularly scheduled reading time before bed, and the girls seldom check out picture books themselves, but I haven't stopped reading to them, by a long shot. Often I only read one shapter aloud to them from whatever novel they have going, or the pictures books I bring home. But it's still something. I'm glad. It is one of my favorite parenting tasks.Library copy. less

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