The Tales of Olga Da Polga

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Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Written by the beloved Michael Bond, with wonderful illustrations by Catherine Rayner, this is a gift edition for young readers to treasure. whether that be her souping up of her rather mundane adventures, or her telling the stories of the history of the guinea-pig. Ei välttis ääneenluettavaa matskua, koska ei mitään isoja mahdollisuuksia muuhun onomatopoetiikkaan kuin marsun aika taajaan vikinään.

Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. Her garden companions soon discover that Olga loves an audience and from the moment she arrives she tells them stories about her wild and exciting adventures. Peter Gurney has been acknowledged as one of the world's experts in guinea pig welfare and care, having campaigned for most of his life for better knowledge and training of small animals within the British veterinary profession. Bond also wrote culinary mystery stories for adults featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes Frites.His illustrations are still strongly associated with Olga, although later editions have used different imagery including artwork by Catherine Rayner for Usborne.

This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child. They bite Noel when he tries to sneak up on them, which earns Olga's respect, as she admires them for standing up to Noel, small as they are. In the edition reviewed here, from 2011, there are humorous pen and watercolour wash illustrations by Catherine Rayner, who reports that she herself loved the stories when she was a child. He is sly and knowledgeable in the ways of the world, as he is free to enter and leave the house as he pleases.Lots of exciting things are happening in the Sawdust household, and Olga da Polga is right in the thick of them. Another main character is Graham, the tortoise, who dislikes being picked up and put upside down, just as Olga da Polga does. I liked the chapter where there she tells a lie how the guinea pigs touched the moon and get their squeaks.

Gurney specialised in the treatment of guinea pigs, and treated Bond's guinea pig who was the inspiration for Olga. His excellent book, "The Proper Care of Guinea Pigs" is the benchmark for owners and breeders, and also some vets.It isn't long before Olga finds out - and the lucky newcomers are just in time to hear her very first poetry recital! Olga da Polga is both the story of guinea pig Olga da Polga’s new life with the Sawdust family and thirteen complete, stand-alone stories disguised as chapters.

Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. Olga da Polga is a fictional guinea pig, who is the heroine of a series of books for children written by Michael Bond and published between 1971 and 2002. Bond's books were memorably illustrated by Danish artist Hans Helweg, who was also well known for his "pulp fiction" covers for Pan paperbacks.Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. First of all she finds a strange jigsaw puzzle that looks good enough to eat, and then she discovers a mysterious visitor in the garden who thinks that she looks good enough to eat!