Olivia Boxed Set [With Poster]

Ian Falconer. Atheneum Books, $33.95 (84pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85389-0

The Olivia Boxed Set will have fans of Ian Falconer's perky piglet oinking for joy. The attractive black, white and salmon-pink slipcover holds Olivia-a 2001 Caldecott Honor book-and Olivia Saves the Circus plus a laminated poster of the red stockings-clad starlet in a quartet of ballet poses, suitable for framing.

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