Olive of Groves and the Great Slurp of Time (19 page)

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Eddie (Kate Burnitt), Chren Byng and Barbara Mobbs – the kind and clever women who continue to guide and support me in my work.

Thank you, once again, to Lucia Masciullo. I go all gooey with emotion every time your new illustrations come through. Writing about Olive and her friends is a bundle of laughs, but you lift the experience to a whole new level of joy with your delightful artwork.

Thank you to my own two naughty boys, Klaus and Finn. Your humour, cheekiness and brilliance inspire me more than you will ever know.

Thank you to Carsten, my darling husband, for frolicking cheerfully beside me through another story. You are the cogs in the cuckoo clock of my mind, the cherries in the Black Forest gateau of my heart, the drifts of edelweiss across the alpine meadow of my life.

About the Author

KATRINA NANNESTAD
grew up in country New South Wales in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. Her adult years have been spent teaching, raising boys, perfecting her recipe for chocolate-chip bickies, time travelling and pursuing her love of stories.

Katrina celebrates family, friendship and belonging in her books. She also loves writing stories that make children laugh. What can be better than contagious belly giggles, hen-like cackles or wild guffaws that end in a snort?

Katrina now lives near Bendigo with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive. She dreams of one day owning a spotted pig called Harold and a goat called Feta.

katrinanannestad.com

About the Illustrator

LUCIA MASCIULLO
lives on the Gold Coast, where she works as a freelance illustrator. It's the best job in the world, she says.

Born and bred in Italy, Lucia moved to Australia in 2007. Since then she has collaborated with Australian and English publishers, illustrating more than fifteen books and the series Our Australian Girl.

Lucia likes to create whimsical characters and dynamic compositions, and she works with traditional techniques, mixing watercolour, acrylic and pencil.

When not in her studio, she enjoys bushwalking, surfing and eating home-made pizza.

luciamasciullo.com

Also by Katrina Nannestad

Bungaloo Creek

Red Dirt
Diaries

Red Dirt Diaries: Blue
about Love

Red Dirt Diaries:
Blue's News

The Girl Who Brought
Mischief

Olive of
Groves

Copyright

First published in Australia in 2016

by HarperCollins
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Text copyright © Katrina Nannestad 2016

Illustrations copyright © Lucia Masciullo 2016

The rights of Katrina Nannestad and Lucia Masciullo to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the
Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000
.

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Copyright Act 1968
, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Nannestad, Katrina, author.

    
Olive of Groves and the great slurp of time / Katrina Nannestad ;

    
illustrated by Lucia Masciullo.

    
ISBN: 978 0 7333 3370 5 (hardback)

    
ISBN: 978 1 4607 0355 7 (ebook)

    
Nannestad, Katrina. Olive of Groves ; 2.

    
For primary school age.

    
Boarding schools—Juvenile fiction.

    
Time travel—Juvenile fiction.

    
Masciullo, Lucia, illustrator.

A823.4

Cover design by Hazel Lam, HarperCollins Design Studio

Cover and internal illustrations by Lucia Masciullo