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32 pp.
| Atheneum |
March, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-689-82941-8$$16.00
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Robin Preiss Glasser.
Olivia, a tidy and precise girl, is saddled with the messiest sister imaginable and gives plenty of colorful examples. Glasser uses a combination of black and white and color to guide the reader's eye through the chaos to the focus of each scene. Olivia and her sister Sophie are endearing characters, but the list of messy tendencies never becomes a story.