Olivia Acts Out Book

Olivia is so excited when she finds out that her class is putting on a special play. Olivia is sure she'll land the leading role. But instead of getting the lead role, she is assigned the role of "Cow Number 2" and has only one line in the whole play: "Moo!" With her penchant for turning lemons into lemonade, and the determination and humor that's unique to Olivia, she manages to secure her place in the spotlight after all.

Children's Literature

Only Olivia knows how to make her simple part in the play even more exciting. In Mrs. Hoggenmuller's class, the students are putting on the play about a fairy queen. Mrs. Hoggenmuller assigns the students the various parts in the performance. To Olivia's disappointment, she is not assigned the leading role. Instead, she is Cow Number Two with the line, "Moo." Read to find out how Olivia makes Cow Number Two a memorable role during the night of the performance. The color illustrations are attractive and appealing. There is an interesting tactile quality to the book. Some parts of the scenes are embossed so the pages in the book are thicker. Along the spine is a column of the letter ?O;' the O's have a red, velvet-like surface along with a silhouette of Olivia in the middle of some of the letters. This story is based on the screenplay (written by Pat Resnick) of the Olivia series on Nickelodeon. Olivia is a character created by Ian Falconer. Readers may enjoy other books about Olivia's adventures. Reviewer: Carrie Hane Hung