Olivia Forms a Band

Ian Falconer Olivia Forms a Band; unpaged/ Antheneum Books for Young Readers 2006 ISBN 978-1-4169-2454-8


From painting a masterpiece to finding a missing toy, Olivia is back and marching her way through another amazing adventure and this little pig is not afraid of anything. When her family decides to go watch fireworks one night, Olivia decides that she needs to make a full marching band even though her mom told her, "one person doesn’t equal a band". However, this pint-sized piggy puts her creativity to use to make her vision come alive. Ian Falconer uses delightfully simple charcoal sketches to capture Olivia’s determination while simple text pours out Olivia’s imagination. This story is appealing to readers of all ages, especially to the primary ages and is a fun relatable story to everyone’s childhood imagination.

Allison Mears, BGSU student