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    Olivia Kidney
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    Audiobook3 hours

    Olivia Kidney

    Written by Ellen Potter

    Narrated by Tara Sands

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Olivia Kidney's new apartment building is crazy! Talking lizards crawling everywhere. An exiled princess haunting the hallways. A tropical rain forest growing in 7B. Even an apartment made entirely of glass! Maybe Olivia's father will get fired from his job as the building super, as he always does, and they can leave. But Olivia is tired of moving from place to place, from school to school. What she wouldn't give for a little slice of sanity. And maybe a friend to share it with.

    In the tradition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Coraline comes a remarkable debut story that is quirky, fun, magical, and completely genuine. Ellen Potter offers a world where even the oddest characters feel right at home.

    "Olivia Kidney is absolutely delightful. I sat down to glance at the story one evening, was immediately drawn in, and ended up chuckling my way straight through in a single sitting, though not without a trace of jealousy. What a smashing debut for Ellen Potter!"-Bruce Coville, author of My Teacher Is an Alien

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 13, 2003
    ISBN9780807216309
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    Olivia Kidney
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    Ellen Potter

    Ellen Potter is the author of more than twenty award-winning novels for children and young adults, including Olivia Kidney, Slob, the Big Foot and Little Foot series, the Piper Green and The Fairy Tree series, the Squirlish series, the Hither & Nigh series, The Humming Room, Pish Posh, and The Kneebone Boy. Several of her books have been chosen by the New York Public Library for their Best 100 Books for Children list and have appeared on numerous state reading lists. Her nonfiction writing book, Spilling Ink, A Young Writer’s Handbook, coauthored with Anne Mazer, was also chosen by the New York Public Library as a Best 100 Books for Children. Ellen lives in upstate New York with her family. For more information about Ellen and her books, visit EllenPotter.com.

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    • 5/5
      Wonderful fun. Not as much pure magic as I generally care for, but with all the wild characters and situations, it's a great ride.
    • 5/5
      Boyo and I are listening to this on tape in the car, and then I got the book out to check out the pictures and finished it in book form. It's funny how different a book and a book on tape can be - with the tape you hear all the reader's nuances and the tone is definitely changed, but the characters really come to life. On paper you get pictures and get to use your imagination more.Not that that has anything to do with reviewing this book, which I really enjoyed. The stories were hilarious and exciting and twisted in that great kid book way, and wound together beautifully. Great book!
    • 4/5
      I read this book when I was younger and for years I couldn't remember the title and couldn't find anyone else who knew what I was talking about.
    • 4/5
      Olivia is a sad, lonely child. Once the youngest child in a family of four, her older brother died, her mother left, and now she lives with only her father. Her father is a building superintendent, but one who is not very good at the job, so they have to move frequently.Olivia has to see the school counselor regularly because she behaves strangely and her father is worried about her. But in the new building where she is living, there is one boy who seems really nice, who might become a friend. However, everyone else in the building is absolutely nutty... they all seem like they could be characters from "A Series of Unfortunate Events." Same type of outlandish, not very nice people the children in that series were always encountering.Accept the weird, and accept the supernatural, which is an element of the book, and you can enjoy an entertaining, though uneven, tale.
    • 1/5
      I can't help myself; I hate books like this. I'm always looking for some easy reading material for my grade six students who are super young so I pick up books like this, hoping it will suit their maturity level, but then I read them and I'm so disenchanted with the silliness of them that I almost don't want to put it on my shelf. However, maybe this book will be like the "Captain Underpants but for girls. I just found it really, really silly and much too far fetched to be even mildly enjoyable.