![]() ![]() Once again Falconer nails common three-year-old parlance and posture. (A clue appears in the lower right-hand corner of the illustration, where the toy is last seen.) It won't give away the fun to say that Perry-the spotted, panting pooch introduced in Olivia and who bears a certain resemblance to the sidekicks in the "Madame Olivia and her Trained Dogs" act in Olivia Saves the Circus-plays a bigger role in this episode. While her mother sews, Olivia's beloved green-and-red toy (who makes a comical cameo appearance in a wordless vignette on the endpapers) disappears with the turn of a page. "That's the point," retorts the heroine in an oversize font. "But then you'll look different from everyone else on the team," says her mother. ![]() ![]() However, "green is not Olivia's color." So she entreats her mother to make a red soccer jersey to replace her team's green one. The porcine star who burst onto the children's books stage in black and white-plus her favorite color, red-is back! Here Falconer adds green to his palette and mystery to the plot for this third adventure featuring the incomparable Olivia. ![]()
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