by Ellen Potter · Macmillan Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330420792
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«Olivia Kidney» is Ellen Potter's children's fantasy novel, published by Macmillan Children's Books in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Olivia Kidney moves into a most eccentric apartment block, with neighbours like a clairvoyant, talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, or a boy who smells of a stable. The extraordinary stories of those neighbours lead her into an adventure that transforms the way she sees her own life.
First instalment of the «Olivia Kidney» series. The novel was originally published in 2003; this edition is from 2005. Nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2005.
For readers aged 8 to 12 who enjoy the humour and extravagant characters of this story.
Ellen Potter is an American author of both children's and adults’ books. She grew up in Upper West Side, New York City and studied creative writing at Binghamton University and now lives in Candor in upstate New York. She has been a contributor to Cimarron Review, Epoch, The Hudson Review, and Seventeen. Her novel Olivia Kidney was winner of the Child Magazine Best Book award and was a Best Book of the Year selection for 8-12 year-olds by Parenting magazine.
