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Kim Kane
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Publisher | David Fickling Books | ||
ISBN | 9780385613309 | ||
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Olive is an only child. She lives by the sea in a ramshackle old house with her mother, Mog, successful, busy and hardly ever at home. Olive is very pale and very quiet and she doesn't quite fit in. But she has a best friend, Mathilda, and that's what matters. And then Mathilda decides to be someone else's best friend. Just as life really can't get much worse, Pip shows up. Brash, loud Pip, who is everything that Olive is not, and is about to cause Olive a whole heap of trouble - and open her up to a whole new world of possibilities.
Review
This book struck me as strange until I was half way through and realised that Olive had an imaginary friend called Pip who she talks to constantly
Pip, the story of Olive shows how a child whose parents have split up grows to cope with living with her mum who is a high flying lawyer and the scraps she gets into with Pip who she always blames for her problems.
Olive seems a quiet little thing with Pip, just the opposite, one always leads the other one on. They have quite a few adventures together with Pip always seemingly landing Olive in a heap of trouble.
I loved the writing and the story with the lanquage being very child friendly. I think many a youngster will enjoy it.
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