Books with author Jenny Oliver

For all fans of Cecilia Aherne and Jenny Han comes the YA romantic Read of the Summer from bestselling contemporary fiction author, Jenny Oliver!Norah Whittaker’s upbringing has been charmingly unconventional: she’s grown up on a houseboat spending her days fishing, cherry picking and helping her mum out at her vintage market stall. As well as laughing at her chaotic dad. But when her dad’s latest get-rich plan ends up getting him arrested, everything changes.Grandparents (incredibly rich ones) that Norah never knew had existed enrol her at exclusive Chelsea High. There are polo lessons, ski trips and parties photographed by Tatler, not to mention Coco Summers, Instagram sensation, who is determined to make Norah feel utterly unwelcome. Luckily there is also handsome Ezra who is cast opposite her in the school play.But is he enough to persuade Norah that she belongs?Chelsea High is Jenny Oliver's YA debut. She is the bestselling author of The Summerhouse by the Sea which the Express call 'a must-read' and a RONA shortlisted author. Jenny wrote her first book on holiday when she was ten years old. Illustrated with cut-out supermodels from her sister's Vogue, it was an epic, sweeping love story not so loosely based on Dynasty. She wrote her first bookThe Parisian Christmas Bake Off on the beach in a notebook that would end up covered in sand each afternoon and damp from the sea. Follow Jenny @JenOliverBooks

'You know you're in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book' Debbie Johnson Welcome to Cherry Pie Island – once you step on to the island, you’ll never want to leave!Socialite Emily Hunter-Brown has just bought the old manor house on Cherry Pie Island – and her friends think she’s gone mad! Still, they should have known that wild-child Emily will try anything once…even settling down!But when Emily discovers she has an allotment to take care of as well as the crumbling mansion, she’s unexpectedly flummoxed! It’s all very well knowing that you have to swap your high heels for Hunter wellies….but it’s quite another actually getting dirt underneath her Chanel Rouge Noir polished nails?And what is she supposed to do with her bumper crop of courgettes anyway?!The Cherry Pie Island seriesThe Grand Reopening of Dandelion Café – Book 1The Vintage Ice Cream Van Road Trip – Book 2The Great Allotment Challenge – Book 3One Summer Night at the Ritz – Book 4The Grand Reopening of Dandelion Café is Book 1 in The Cherry Pie Island series.Each part of Cherry Pie Island can be read and enjoyed as a standalone story – or as part of the utterly delightful series.

Everybody loves cars and trucks! These vehicles make our lives better by making it fast and easy to visit places, to transport things, and even to take vacations on the road. Just imagine a world without these vehicles and you will be sad, too. Every car and every truck has its uses. Monster trucks, Formula One cars, and dragsters are used for racing contests. Concrete mixer trucks and dump trucks are used in construction sites to mix cement, gravel and water and to transport these materials. Tow trucks are used to tow vehicles from the road into repair shops. Moving trucks transport home and office items including heavy furniture. Fire trucks are necessary to put out fires, perhaps even get your kitten out of the tree. Log trucks get wooden logs from the forests to the timber mills. Tank trucks are used to transport solids, liquids and gases from the manufacturers to the stores. Garbage trucks keep your neighborhood streets clean by collecting trash. Ambulances can save your life and the lives of your family, too. Recreational vehicles are great for on-the-road vacations. Forklift trucks may be small like you but these are useful, too, because of their powerful lifts. Military vehicles are used by the military to keep our nation safe, too. Taxicabs get you around the city while school buses make for safe arrival to your school. Automobiles like your family’s sedan or van gets everybody to their destinations. Jeeps are useful for driving both on city streets and country roads. Which of these cars and trucks would you like to drive? All of them, of course, but first you should know everything about these vehicles – and get your drivers’ license, too!

All About Monster Trucks is a children's book that takes a good look at the monster truck with fun facts and even some really cool monster truck pictures. Children love to read about cars and trucks. This All About Monster Trucks will introduce them to the Bigfoot monster truck (big foot truck). Another big monster truck that children will love to read about is the Grave Digger monster truck. There are a couple of photos of Grave Digger within this book. The Grave Digger is known as the monster truck demolisher. Children will learn all about what it is like to go to a monster truck show.Children will discover just how big the monster trucks are. They will see that a grown woman can stand within the wheel well of one of the monster trucks because one of the photos shows this. They will find out that a monster truck can be as tall as 66 inches, which is as tall as some of the tallest men in the world. They will discover that a monster truck can be as long as twenty feet, and will learn that twenty feet is two stories. They will learn that monster trucks can weigh up to 12,000 pounds and that 12,000 pounds are six tons. Children will discover that monster trucks are made out of ordinary trucks, buses, and even vans.Does your child know what it costs to maintain a monster truck each year? Do they know it can cost up to half a million dollars each year to run and maintain these monster trucks. Do your children know how much a set of wheels and tires cost for a monster truck? Monster trucks are a very expensive hobby. Monster trucks hold a big fascination for children. These trucks are huge and loud. They are brightly colored and have funny names. Children will love to know the story of monster trucks. They will love to read about the different tricks and skills they will see at a monster jam.

Bugs are everywhere! No matter where you go, no matter where you live, you are going to see bugs! The cool thing about bugs is that there are tons of them! Small bugs, big bugs, and even medium sized bugs! What bugs are living near you right now? What will you see when you go out the door? This book is a great guide to identifying and understanding the bugs around you, so keep reading!

Birds: A kid’s book about Birds by Jenny River helps children to learn about twenty different birds. Written in a way that is easy for children to understand this little book can help to groom little bird watchers in the making. Each of the birds described comes with a cute illustration and a paragraph explaining the unique facts about the bird. Children can learn about the different habitats including their feeding habits, insight on their names, and about what makes them unique. Some birds are social and friendly while others are elusive yet beautiful. This book is a great learning tool to promote interest in the lovely world of birds. Children will love the illustrations, which will help them to understand an approximation of what each bird looks like including their colorful feathers such as those on a macaw. Adults and children will enjoy this little colorful and highly informative bird book.How do you feel today? A kid’s book about Emotions and Feelings by Jenny Rivers is a book that helps children to understand what emotions are feelings are. If children are educated on their emotions and what each one means they may be better able to cope through situations that occur as a part of everyday life. By understanding what drives emotions and how the emotions affects other people children can learn why they feel the way they do. Helping a child to mature in their emotions will help them to grow up to be a well-rounded adult. It starts with simple discussions on identifying the many emotions we may experience throughout the day. It is a great tool for opening discussions to help teach children how behavior and emotions affect their life and the relationships we have with each other.Bugs: A Kids Book About Bugs and Insects by Jenny Rivers helps children to learn about their favorite insects such as the bee, ladybugs, butterflies, and caterpillars. There is no reason why children need to learn to fear bugs as so many do. If we teach children that bugs have their place then they can grow up understanding this and maybe even develop a fascination for these little critters. This little book will teach about the grasshopper, bee, centipede, firefly, grub, housefly, ladybug, head louse, mosquito, slug, spiders, butterfly, cicadas, scorpion, flea, hornet, tarantula, praying mantis, snail, and cockroach. Children can learn how to identify these bugs. They will learn which ones have wings and can fly and which ones have big legs and can hop. It is a great bug guide to help them learn what they do, where they may live. The colorful illustrations are cute yet they help to give a visual on the real thing.Airplanes! A Kids Book About Planes & Airport by Jenny River is a cute little book that demonstrates all about airports and airplanes in language children can easily understand. Traveling by airplane is a fun and exciting adventure for children. If you plan a trip aboard a plane and your child has never flown, they will benefit from reading this book. These topics are covered within the book: seaplane, jet, war plane, biplane, space shuttle, passenger jet, cargo aircraft, single place aircraft, propeller plane, travel around the world, the family at the airport, airplane pilot, security guard, check-in, mechanic, air hostess, security control, waiting, control tower, cockpit, airplane at take-off, in the sky, luggage, and on vacation. This is a short book with cute illustrations, which will help your child understand all about air travel. A quick read that is both informative and entertaining for children.

“When you do something really well and your mom says, “Good job!” How do you feel? Happy? Proud? When you pet runs away, how do you feel? Sad? Angry? When you see something on TV that is scary, how do you feel? Afraid? Anxious?”Thus opens a journey for you to take with your child, a journey exploring emotions. In easy to understand language and colorful, vibrant illustrations, Book of Emotions will help your child understand what he or she is feeling and how to express it so that YOU know what they are feeling.“Emotions are important in your life because they help you not only understand how you feel about certain things but it also helps you understand how other people feel about things.”This is perhaps one of the most important aspects of understanding emotion. When you understand emotion in yourself, you are better able to understand it in others. Being in touch with emotions invokes empathy, compassion and sympathy; all important things that we need in order to function in society and interact with other people.Emotions are funny things though. They can make you feel happy or sad or angry or afraid. Emotions can also be very confusing and even scary to a child. This book will take you and your child on a delightful, interesting and informative journey through emotions. You will read about what they are, what they feel like and their usefulness. Written on the level of a young child, Book of Emotions will help you teach your child how to identify various emotions and can be an invaluable tool in opening discussions about different feelings.It can be very difficult to put certain emotions into words, to explain and describe what they are. With Book of Emotions you have emotions that are clearly defined and described in a way that children can understand and identify with them. The accompanying illustrations further help to increase understanding.We need to be in touch with our emotions in order to interact with people and the earlier we begin learning about them, the better. Book of Emotions will lay a solid foundation for your child that will carry him or her through to adulthood. It is never too early to start talking about feelings.

Help to teach children about birds with this "Birds : A kids book about birds" This book lists twenty different birds, telling a little description about each one along with a cute image of the bird. Spark an interest in bird watching with the little ones with this easy to understand book written in a language children will love. Each of the bird images are illustrations showing a cute friendly bird to give the child an idea of what the birds may look like in real life.Teach children we can call a male turkey. Children will learn where sparrows live, and why they are so social. They will find out the beautiful color of the chest of a robin. They will learn why the ostrich is one of the fastest running birds. They will discover the beautiful color and markings of the cardinal. They will learn about the diet of the blue jay. They will be introduced to the lovely macaw and find how where these colorful birds love to live. They will learn about the toucans and the special way their toes grow. They will be introduced to the eagle and find out what makes them such a special large bird. They will learn about the raven the fact they mate for life.Children can learn about what makes a penguin so unique. They will meet the vultures and learn about their odd feeding habits. They will discover storks and their super large nests. They find out about owls and their nighttime habits. They will meet another flightless bird called the kiwi bird. They will learn about the unusual talent the parrots have. They will discover the bright colored feathers that grown on the flamingos. They will learn about the beautiful swans and their graceful features. They will discover seagulls and learn about their social habits. They will get to meet ducks and learn how they swim so well.