- Title:
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Pip: The Story of Olive
- Written by:
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Kim Kane
- Read by:
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Miranda Nation
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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5
- Duration:
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5 hours 49 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2009
- Available Date:
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May 14 2010
- Age Category:
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Children (10+)
- ISBN:
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9781742017921
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Children; Children's Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Award winning author
Australian author
Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Book of the Year for Older Children 2009
From award-winning author Kim Kane comes an original and surprising story about fitting in and finding the strength to be yourself.
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.
'I loved this wonderfully warm, touching story and was completely captivated by Olive (and Pip).'
Readings
'The story is often clever, never boring, and very real, as are the characters ... It is a warm, funny story about discovering more about yourself and the people in your circle ...'
The Bookbag
'Kane's first novel is original, intelligent and unexpected from the very first line.'
The Sunday Times
'A must for any parent or child who knows what it's like to live on the margins.'
The Sunday Tribune