Ivy and Bean (#1)

Author(s): Annie Barrows

Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds

Author Annie Barrows talks about her award-winning Ivy + Bean series: One of the big problems of being a kid is that your parents often try to make you play with people you don't really like. My parents were forever trying to get me to like the kids of their friends. These kids were often weird. I didn't want to play with them. It was a problem. Ivy and Bean are very different: Bean is loud and wild and goofy. She loves to be involved in games and poke her nose in other people's business. Ivy is quiet and full of ideas. She spends most of her time learning how to be a witch. Each girl thinks the other one is weird. Each girl thinks she could never be friends with the other. Especially because their parents keep nagging them about it. But sometimes opposites can become the best of friends because they're opposites.

Kathleen's review - Bean (Bernice) is who we start with - she's the outgoing one who never stops talking and frequently gets into trouble. She has no interest in getting to know Ivy, the boringly quiet girl who lives across the road. But then circumstances throw them together, and Bean discovers that 'still waters run deep'. Not that she puts it that way, of course.


Lots of fun!

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Short-listed for Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (Intermediate) 2011.

BARNES & NOBLE REVIEW"Annie Barrows accomplishes the almost impossible task of reflecting the world of second grader, creating the tension and drama of family and friendships in language that can be read easily by child who recently graduated from easy readers to early chapter books. " Lisa Von Drasek, Children's Librarian, Bank Street College of Education

General Fields

  • : 9780811849098
  • : Chronicle Books Llc
  • : Chronicle Books Llc
  • : 0.15
  • : April 2007
  • : 183mm X 139mm X 10mm
  • : May 2007
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Annie Barrows
  • : b&w
  • : YX
  • : 120
  • : very good
  • : 813.6 [Fic]
  • : English
  • : Sophie Blackall
  • : Sophie Blackall
  • : Paperback