Ian Falconer

Finally available on audio, all five Olivia titles in one collection, gloriously read by Dame Edna Everage. Olivia Olivia...and the Missing Toy Olivia Forms a Band Olivia Saves the Circus Olivia Helps with Christmas Share in the antics and adventures of Olivia, everyone's favorite hyperactive piglet, as she spins tall tales about lion taming and tightrope walking, plays amateur detective, starts her own one-pig band, saves Santa from being cooked...

At school, Olivia tells about her summer vacation and how, when she went to the circus and all the performers were out sick, she saved the day, becoming Olivia the Tattooed Lady, Olivia the Lion Tamer, The Amazing Flying Olivia, and more.

When her best toy mysteriously disappears, Olivia the feisty pig is determined to find out who is responsible.

Publisher Annotation: Olivia?s birthday is days away. Plans must be made. Who makes plans? Moms! Who simply must know the plans? Olivia, who is NOT above eavesdropping. But when she not-so-accidentally-but-kinda overhears her mom talking about her not-so-squeaky-clean-and-possibly-very-bad-behavior, Olivia?s imagination runs wild...because it sounds like not only will there be no birthday, but Mom might just be sending her to military school instead....

Olivia the piglet introduces the concept of opposites by demonstrating word pairs.

The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarreling families.

With her little brother Ian, her best pal, Julian, and all of her friends in Mrs. Hogenmuller's class, Olivia's imagination turns the ordinary into the extraordinary! So find out what happens when Olivia becomes princess for a day, the founder of her own country, a fashionista, and more!