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 Hon
See inside planet earth 作者： Katie Daynes 出版社： Usborne Publishing Ltd ISBN： 9780746087541 出版日期： 2008年03月 語言版本： English 頁數： 16 頁 版次： 第 1 版 裝幀： Hardcover 叢書/系列： See Inside 内容简介 * A brilliant flap book that delves deep into the mysteries of the geography of the Earth. * Each page is covered with flaps that reveal and explain the Earth's structure, climate and environments, from desert to arctic tundra. * Includes pages revealing the problems of climate change and ways to reduce global warming. * With over 80 sturdy flaps, and internet links to websites to find out more. * Printed on paper made from trees from sustainable forests, and 20p from every copy sold will be donated to Friends of the Earth.
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