Olivia Forms a Band
DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"Book Description:Everyone's favorite Caldecott Honor-winning porcine diva is back  and with fanfare! There are going to be fireworks tonight, and Olivia can hardly wait to hear the  band. But when she finds out that there isn't going to be a band, she can't understand why not.  How can there be fireworks without a band?! And so Olivia sets to putting a band together  herself...allby herself. Using pots, pans, her brother's toys, and even her father's  suspenders, Olivia forms a band spectacular enough to startle any audience. Lavishly brought to  life in Ian Falconer's signature style, and introducing an eye-catching shade of blue, here is  Olivia doing what Olivia does best--making noiseExclusive Art from Ian Falconer'sOlivia Forms a  BandWhy wasn't this picture included in the book? Here's a look inside  the creation of a blockbuster picture book.There were 60 images selected forOlivia  Forms a Bandout of over 70 pieces of art submitted byOliviacreator Ian Falconer.  Sixty images may sound like a lot, but many pages are filled with multiple depictions of our  porcine heroine. For instance, when you look at the page where Olivia is removing Daddy's  suspenders, this page has nine separate drawings. On the other hand, the glorious fireworks scenes  are all composed of one piece of art per page.For this particular image of Olivia provided  exclusively for Amazon.com customers, Falconer didn't feel like this artwork captured Olivia's  true character. However, many people in-house at Simon & Schuster loved the picture and thought it  was typical of a 5-year-old playing with her mother's lipstick. While there's a lot to love in  this picture, Ian Falconer after all is the man behind Olivia. He knows better than anyone what  makes something up to "Olivia standards." Sometimes that is as simple as being able to know which  image works best for a particular moment in the book. In this instance Falconer felt the drawings  that were used in the final book served the scene better, and with that this one was left on the  cutting room floor.All About OliviaTeatro OliviaOlivia... and the Missing ToyOlivia Saves the CircusOlivia