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.

 

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Kim Kane is an award-winning author who writes for children and teens in Australia and overseas. Kim's books include the CBCA short-listed picture book Family Forest and her middle-grade novel Pip: the Story of Olive. Kim lives with her family in Melbourne and writes whenever and wherever she can. Pirates, old elephants, witches in bloomers, bears on bikes, ugly cats, sweet kids - Jon Davis does it all! Based in Twickenham, United Kingdom, Jon Davis has illustrated more than 40 kids' books for publishers across the globe.