Oliver

Hardback

Main Details

Title Oliver
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Judith Rossell
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 263,Width 260
ISBN/Barcode 9780062022103
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint HarperCollins
Publication Date 8 May 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

"How do planes fly" "How does our fridge work" "Can I breathe underwater like a fish" Oliver is a curious explorer, so he asks a lot of questions. Then, one day in the bathtub, he hears a strange gurgle. "What lives down the drain" he wonders. Soon Oliver is headed down the drain in his homemade submarine on a spectacular mission. But will this clever inventor be able to discover a way back In this imaginative and funny adventure story, Judith Rossell introduces a lovable little hero whose curiosity leads him to extraordinary places.

Author Biography

Judith Rossell is the multi-award-winning author-illustrator of the bestselling Stella Montgomery series (Withering-by-Sea, Wormwood Mire, Wakestone Hall and A Garden of Lilies: Improving Tales for Young Minds). Before beginning her career in children's books, Judith worked as a government scientist (not a mad scientist, a normal kind of scientist) and also for a cotton-spinning company (that made threads for T-shirts and denim jeans and mops and teabag strings). Judith has written thirteen books and illustrated more than eighty. Her work has been published in the US and UK, and translated into more than twenty languages. Judith lives in Melbourne, Australia with a cat the size of a walrus. www.judithrossell.com