Olive Tran

The school talent show is coming up, and Olive Tran is desperate to enter. The best act wins a party for their entire class, and Olive is determined to be the hero who brings home the pizza! But Olive has one big problem: What exactly is her talent? The more she struggles to find it, the more anxious she becomes. How can she win the talent show with no talent? It doesn't help that her brother Ben is a piano prodigy. If only good intentions and a sassy attitude were enough! Can Olive find a way to score the pizza party for her friends? And why does she want to win so badly anyway? Book Two in the Olive Tran Series! Olive tries to manage her anxiety as she searches for a way to win her school talent show. The adventures of Olive Tran, a ten year old who loves her friends, her family, and the delicious food her grandma/Bà Ni makes! Everybody's Got Talent? Key Selling Points: • The second book in an early-reader series that follows the lovable Olive Tran through her grade four year. In book one, Every Little Bit Olive Tran, Olive learned the importance of kindness when supporting her community in the face of Anti-Asian racism. In Take a Breath Olive Tran, when Olive's excitement and stress over the school talent show start to become too much, she has to figure out why gets so carried away sometimes. • Olive has such a strong, distinct voice that adds so much humour and personality to the story. Her perfectionism, competitiveness with her brother, and anxiety about the talent show and finding something she can perform will be very relatable to kids. • A multi-generational story, Olive turns to her mother and Bà Ni (grandmother) for support. Olive is very much a foodie, and one way she connects with her family is through food and cooking delicious Vietnamese dishes. • Author Phuong Truong initially took the idea for the series from her debut picture book Everyone is Welcome, which dealt with Anti-Asian racism and was a Bookstagram Picture Book Award winner. • Features delightful spot illustrations by Christine Wei which help bring the story to life. She also did the illustrations for Every Little Bit Olive Tran and Everyone is Welcome.

Olive Tran is turning ten! Now she can walk to school by herself and go to Kandy Korner whenever she wants. Finally! But when Olive finds out Mrs. Ly was pushed on the street and her brother's school friends had gross things thrown at them because they're Asian, she starts to feel less safe. And why doesn't her best friend Josh want to come to her birthday party at the trampoline park anymore? Olive knows something is wrong, but she is determined to have fun at her party. If she shows kindness, maybe others will too. Every little bit counts! Olive Tran is excited to turn ten until racism toward her Asian community makes her question how safe she feels. The adventures of Olive Tran, a ten year old who loves her friends, her family, and the delicious food her grandma/Bà Ni makes! Kindness always counts. "Every Little Bit Olive Tran explores racism through the eyes of a child.… The solution to addressing it was a conversation, an admittance of the behaviour, and an apology. Highly Recommended." Key Selling Points: • The first in a new series of chapter books that follow the lovable Olive Tran through her grade four year. • Kids in grades 1-4 will relate to Olive's excitement for her 10th birthday and her thirst for independence, her love of family, and her love of candy/overall love of yummy foods! They will also relate to her conflicts with friends, and some will see their own experiences with racism reflected here. • Author Phuong Truong took the idea for the series from her debut picture book Everyone is Welcome. It dealt with Anti-Asian racism and was a Bookstagram Picture Book Awards winner. • A multi-generation story, Olive turns to her family for support: listening to her mother and brother's stories of racism and her Bà Ni's (grandma's) journey from Vietnam as a refugee. • Anti-Asian hate received a lot of media attention after Covid, but there are few books like this that encourage children to confront it and be supportive of each other. • Delightful spot illustrations by Christine Wei, the illustrator for Everyone is Welcome, help bring the story to life.