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When not telling Olivia's story Ian Falconer designs sets and costumes for the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, and the Royal Opera House in London. He lives in New York City.
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还行，上课用的，画风比较特别
Hands down the best illustrations in any childrens book. We love Ian Falconer's Olivia books. This actual book "Olivia Forms a Band" was purchased when my daughter was 3 years old. She just turned 9 and its still one that makes the cut of books in rotation for her to read before bed.
Olivia is hilarious and her imagination is played out in these books. This one is her idea of forming a band on 4th of July. I love how most pages are simple illistrations using only minimal color. The black and white images are adorable and really pop with the touches of red.
Great book for children of all ages.
I'm not sure how we missed Olivia but we recently discovered the Christmas book and then Olivia, the original book, and we've kept going. The original book is the best. This book has some great pages and the scenes of her putting on lipstick were deadly funny. My 3.5 year old daughter and I were rolling on the bed just looking at those two pages! Ian Falconer's humor and ability to write the tone and convey so much in his sketches is truly admirable.
But I found the overall plot line a bit less compelling in this one. The climax to making the band sort of deflates when she ends up not taking the band to the picnic and fireworks. Yes, it's funny at the end when Mom stumbles across all the instruments but it was a little less fulfilling in general.
Falconer is also brilliant, I will say, about just making Olivia a strong, strong girl. I love the dream image at the end where Olivia dreams she is sitting amongst the Supreme Court justices! Amazing!
I love the Olivia books for myself, even though I am 28. They are great comfort reading and the humor hits me just the right way!
This was the best so far, I think. I loved the introduction of photos into the book, in particular the use the photos when Olivia's mother asks her what kind of band she wants to form. The rock band rocking out that Olivia's mother has in mind just cracks me up, and the straight-laced marching band of Olivia's dreams balances it perfectly.
Little William is growing up and is shown actually having some personality now. I love the page where Olivia tells her family that they should all start a band, and you see them going from interested to, variously, slinking off, looking engaged in the newspaper and dishes, and very carefully looking at anything BUT Olivia.
The suspenders scene with her Dad is hilarious too, where she takes off his suspenders to use for her band, and his pants fall down, exposing his voluminous boxer shorts with red polka dots, identical to Olivia's PJ's with red polka dots. "Look, Daddy, we are twins!" and her enthused expression just cracks me up.
The scene with her looking in the mirror and grinning is both slightly creepy and really funny. I never envisioned Olivia with Hollywood, human teeth, so that was a little odd, but it certainly has the impact that Falconer desires - of putting us in the fantasy world of a child with lipstick on. Olivia thinks she looks quite the movie star!
All in all, this book meanders in enough directions to make some wonderful jokes, but keeps to the main theme well too. The illustrations have a ton of funny moments and I loved the jokes and the way pictures were included.
I know a lot of parents dislike the final joke of the book, where Olivia is dreaming and imagines herself in the Supreme Court, because it isn't a joke aimed at children. As an adult who enjoys the books, that ending cracks me up every time, and I think kids might be fascinated by that bit because it probably makes their parents laugh. I remember as a child having a few books that went over my head for the jokes occasionally, and those books often became ones which meant the most to me in later life, because when I reread them as a teen, I finally got what my parents were snickering about, and I could enjoy them on many levels.
Anyway, five stars for his one. I've read and reread it many times and the appeal hasn't faded for me yet. Olivia is just too funny!
I love to read the Olivia books to my daughter at bed time. The characters have a great design to them, and each page uses bright colors sparingly to draw young readers to where Olivia is on the page, and what she is doing. The dialog is always funny, as well as the interaction between Olivia and her parents. I would recommend this to any parent with a young child.
I love Ian Falconer's other books, but the story for this one seems a little disjointed and non-linear. Things start and stop. Of course, 3 year olds are like that and my daughter loves it, especially when I read the onomatopoeia sounds that Olivia's "band" makes.
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