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Olli Biography & Facts
Olli is a Dutch children's book character and a stuffed toy. The character Olli was created in 2004 by Dutch designer and film director Hein Mevissen along with writer Diederiekje Bok as a character for a bottled mineral water. Olli was one of the many characters used on the packages and posters of the bottled water brand and John's Phone. Olli was launched at a party of MTV In Rotterdam in 2004. In 2013, Olli was again part of a campaign, this time to save the Rotterdam Zoo Diergaarde Blijdorp. Olli is part of the Ollimania family which is the company that created and owns all characters. After the launch, Olli became the symbol of Rotterdam and professional football club Feyenoord. On 10 September 2015, Ollimania and its creators Hein Mevissen and Diederiekje Bok donated a huge Olli statue to the Sophia children's hospital in Rotterdam. Books The first two Ollimania books were launched in October 2014. 'Olli en het poepkanon' and 'Olli is een olifant'. Both books made it into the top 10 of best sold children books in the Netherlands. In June 2015 Ollimania published two new books called 'Olli en de woestijndraak' and 'Olli op reis'. 2014 – Olli en het poepkanon (Leopold) (Dutch) 2014 – Olli is een olifant (Leopold) (Dutch and German) 2015 – Olli en de woestijndraak (Leopold) (Dutch and English) 2015 – Olli gaat op reis (Leopold) (Dutch) 2015 – Olli and the pudding rocket (Leopold) (Dutch and English) 2015 – Een kusje voor Tutje (Leopold) (Dutch) 2016 - Olli droomt (Leopold) (Dutch and English) 2016 – Olli wordt later (Leopold) (Dutch) 2016 – Sugar Mousey It's always about love Ollimania (English) 2016 – Hello Olli (Ollimania) (English) 2016 - Olli ce hero's (Ollimania) (French, German and English) 2016 – The art of Ollimania(Ollimania) (English) 2017 – Happy Ollidays(Ollimania) (English) (Dutch) (French) 2017 – My Big Hero (Ollimania) (English) (Dutch) (French) 2018 – The old forest (Ollimania) (English) (Dutch) 2018 - De fantastische reis van de geluksbrenger (Ollimania) (Dutch and English) Big Olli There are two big Ollies. They are the elder version of small Olli. The Big Olli is a special creature model made for several charities. One is a permanent hard plastic polyester statue at the Sophia Children's hospital and another one has a temporarily place at the Rotterdam Zoo. The big Olli that is used in the short film to save the Rotterdam ZOO is stored at a secret location according to the creators. Fictional character biography Olli is a toy elephant grown to the size of a real elephant. Olli is a lovable character with furry friends living in a fantasy world. In 2013, the story was expanded that he was the favorite toy of association football player Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Together they are the main cast of a short film. In Rotterdam, Netherlands of 1980, Giovanni van Bronckhorst is a little boy (played in the short film by the son of Giovanni van Bronckhorst). One day, he discovers a stuffed Elephant at the Rotterdam Zoo and grows attached to it. The name of the elephant is Olli. Giovanni takes him everywhere he goes, especially when he plays football. One day during a game, he loses Olli in the river the Maas in Rotterdam. 28 years later in 2013, Giovanni became an association football Player and trainer of Feyenoord, and Olli, also grew big, reunite again. Background Hein Mevissen and Diederiekje Bok have a history in creating things that help people. To give something back to society and convince big brands to do so too. Olli was a few times part of a strategy they developed in 2004 and created Olli as a separate brand to generate awareness and in one campaign to generate more traffic and money for Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam. Copyright infringement In 2015, John Doe BV of Olli sued insurance company ASR Nederland in summary proceedings for systematically infringing their copyright. ASR Nederland unlawfully used drawings and photos that they retrieved from the Ollimania website and used without permission to sell their insurance policies. The judge ruled in John Doe's favor and banned ASR Nederland from using images of Olli for their benefit any longer. John Doe suggested to ASR Nederland to return the Olli's that the insurance company had withheld to Diergaarde Blijdorp. ASR Nederland was allowed to decide for itself what to do with the withheld Olli's and chose not to return them to Blijdorp Zoo. Awards In December 2013 Hein Mevissen and Diederiekje Bok of John Doe got awarded with the highest Dutch advertising award the Golden Loeki for this campaign. The agency John Doe got the award in a Live television show from Arian Buurman, CEO of the Stichting Ether Reclame who hosts the Loeki awards. References External links Official Olli website. Discover the Olli popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Olli books.
Best Seller Olli Books of 2024
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Dark Forces
Stephen LeatherWhen you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive . . .A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can gather enough evidence ag...
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Driven to Distraction
Jeremy ClarksonJeremy Clarkson is once more Driven to Distraction.Brace yourself. Clarkson's back.And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most aweinspiring, earthshatteringly f...
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Ollie Chandler Collection
Randy AlcornThree suspense detective novels for the price of one in this eBookexclusive omnibus. Ollie Chandler is a brilliant and quickwitted homicide detective who lives by Ollies' First Law...
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Cold Kill
Stephen LeatherThe third book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Even deadlier than terrorists . . . are the men trying to stop them.Peoplesmuggling, counterfeit currency and attemp...
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Fast Track
Stephen Leather'Stephen Leather writes really exciting action thrillers. It's like being there yourself' CHRIS RYAN, AUTHOR OF Zero 22'The fastpaced action scenes are expertly choreographed; the ...
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White Lies
Stephen LeatherDan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakis...
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101 Conversations in Mexican Spanish
Olly RichardsImprove your spoken Spanish from home with 101 realworld conversations in intermediate Mexican Spanish.Real Mexicans don't speak like your textbook… so it's no wonder you struggle ...
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Fair Game
Stephen LeatherThe eighth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Kidnapping is one of the cruellest crimes lives are put at risk for cold, hard cash. But when Somali pirates seiz...
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Grease Junkie
Edd ChinaSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.As you'll discover in his incomparable memoir, inventor, mechanic, TV presenter and walking tall as the definition of the British eccentric, Edd China sees ...
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Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners
Olly RichardsAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Italian.Olly's topnotch languagelearning insights ...
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Zero Six Bravo
Damien LewisThe Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be furthe...
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101 Conversations in Intermediate Spanish
Olly RichardsReal Spanish people don't speak like your textbook… so it's no wonder you feel unprepared when it's your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a realworld...
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Saffy and Ollie
Paola OpalSaffy loves playing with her rock. “Can I play?” asks Ollie. Saffy says no, but when her rock gets stuck Ollie helps move it. Saffy learns that having someone else around to play w...
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True Colours
Stephen LeatherThe Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as their plaything, travelling without borders and living lives of unimaginable luxury without fear or restrai...
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Dirty War
Stephen LeatherTHE NEW MUSTREAD SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLERThe target the Prime Minister. The assassins hardbitten jihadists with nothing to lose.The only man who can stop them? Dan "Spider" Shep...
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Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners
Olly RichardsAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Italian.Olly's topnotch languagelearning insights ...
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Ollie
Catherine LievensTeddy is focused on one thing, and one thing onlymaking his brother proud. That means finishing his Master's degree with the highest grades possible, then finding a good job. Those...
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The Day Ollie the Giant Saved Happy Town
Francis BurgerSomething is shaking the people of Happy Town out of their nice, warm beds one spring morning, but it isn't an earthquake... it's a giant! Oh, don't run away just yet! This giant i...
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Last Man Standing
Stephen LeatherFriendships forged in the heat of combat can be stronger than anything.So when SAS trooper Matt Standing is told that the former Navy SEAL who saved his life is in trouble, he does...
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Dead Men
Stephen LeatherThe fifth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against ter...
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Light Touch
Stephen LeatherWorking undercover is all about trust getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.But what do you do when you believe an undercover c...
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Hot Blood
Stephen LeatherThe fourth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. ...
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Clarkson on Cars
Jeremy ClarksonJeremy Clarkson gets under the bonnet in Clarkson on Cars a collection of his motoring journalism.Jeremy Clarkson has been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicin...
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Slow Burn
Stephen Leather'Leather's latest fullthrottle thriller could hardly be more topical . . . it hurtles off the page, grabbing the reader by the throat' Daily Mail'This cracking Spider Shepherd thri...
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Only Mostly Devastated
Sophie GonzalesSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets Clueless in this boymeetsboy spin on Grease, from NATIONALLY and INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING author Sophie GonzalesA 2021 Rainbow Book List ...
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Soft Target
Stephen LeatherThe second book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop . . . and that's a corrupt cop with a gun.When a group of ...
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When Polly Met Olly
Zoe May'Funny, quirky and delightfully different. I loved it!' Zara Stoneley, author of The Wedding Date'A modernday You’ve Got Mail’ Victoria Van Tiem, author of Love Like the Movi...
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I Know You Got Soul
Jeremy ClarksonIn I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have 'soul'. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's ...
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Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners, Volume 2
Olly RichardsAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Italian.Olly's topnotch languagelearning insights ...
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Dominion
Randy AlcornSweet Revenge? When two senseless killings hit close to home, columnist Clarence Abernathy seeks revenge for the murdersand, ultimately, answers to his own struggles regarding rac...
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False Friends
Stephen LeatherThe ninth allaction thriller in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. The most wanted man in the world is dead. Now those loyal to him seek revenge. When Navy Seals track ...
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The Marine
James BradyA rousing new Marine Corps adventure from the author of the New York Times bestselling Warning of War and The Marines of AutumnThe Marine is Colonel James ("Oliver") Cromwell, a wa...
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Short Stories in German for Beginners
Olly Richards & Alex RawlingsAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work and you will too!" Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of...
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Soldier Spy
Tom MarcusThe explosive, shocking and honest account from an MI5 officer, revealing neverbeforeseen detail into MI5's operation 'I do it because it is all I know. I'm a hunter of people and ...
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The Runner
Stephen Leather'Thoughtprovoking, highoctane chase thriller with style' Financial Times'Leather once again delivers highoctane thrillaminute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series'...
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Hard Landing
Stephen LeatherThe blistering first book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad he h...
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Short Stories in Italian for Beginners - Volume 2
Olly RichardsAn unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Italian.Olly's topnotch languagelearning insights ...
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Deadline
Randy AlcornThe first book in the Ollie Chandler series, this rerelease of the Randy Alcorn bestseller is a heartpounding murder mystery When tragedy strikes those closest to him, Jake Woods m...
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101 Conversations in Social Media Spanish
Olly RichardsFutureproof your Spanish with the unique slang & cool expressions of 'Social Media Spanish'!If you're trying to learn Spanish, the hardest thing is making the leap from the tex...
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Milly and Olly
Humphry WardA light and simple children's book. Milly and Olly travel across England to spend a holiday with relatives who live in the mountains. They experience new people and ways of living....
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Deception
Randy Alcorn“Messin’ with me’s like wearin’ cheese underwear down rat alley.”Ollie ChandlerHomicide detective Ollie Chandler has seen it all. Done more than he cares to admit. But when he’s ca...