Annie Barrows
Paperback | Pages: 120 pages Rating: 3.93 | 13524 Users | 1196 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Ivy and Bean |
| ISBN: | 0811849090 (ISBN13: 9780811849098) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Ivy & Bean #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Flicker Tale Children's Book Award Nominee for Intermediate (2011) |
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Cute friendship story about two different little girls learning to appreciate each. I would have liked it better if Bean hadn't been such an obnoxious little brat. I liked Ivy but Bean I wanted to slap. I vastly prefer a child protagonist like Ramona who gets in trouble because of misunderstandings or poor judgment (in ways that are totally natural for a kid her age) rather than being deliberately bad. I had a lot more sympathy for Nancy the older sister and the "mean" neighbor than I did for Bean. My siblings and I weren't angels by any means but we were nicer to each other and other children, politer, and better behaved in public than this spoiled little rotter. Crawling under strangers' dressing rooms at the store? Climbing fences into other people's property? Stealing money? Digging mud holes in the lawn and tricking people into falling into them? Throwing a frigging bucket of live worms over someone in the house? Any one of these would have gotten us more punishment than Bean gets for all of them together -- which I would guess is the appeal for children, the idea of doing all these mean things and basically getting rewarded in the end (since she makes a friend and gets a laughable token punishment of not watching videos for the week).And I don't find any of the exploits funny except maybe Ivy pretending to be a witch, and that's been done better in earlier books. At least they only killed some worms and not the frog they wanted to catch!
I wouldn't let my kids read this book, much less play with someone like Bean.
Mention Containing Books Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean #1)
| Title | : | Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean #1) |
| Author | : | Annie Barrows |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 120 pages |
| Published | : | May 3rd 2007 by Chronicle Books (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Chapter Books. Juvenile. Middle Grade. Humor |
Rating Containing Books Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean #1)
Ratings: 3.93 From 13524 Users | 1196 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Ivy and Bean (Ivy & Bean #1)
I made the mistake of not previewing this book before reading aloud to my kids! Someone recommended it to us, so I didn't hesitate to start reading this book with the cute cover. It starts out innocently about two very different girls who don't think they would like each other and then become good friends. That's about the only good thing about this book. Bean is trouble - she lies, steals & runs away. This book uses "name calling" words that I would rather not add to my children'sThis is my first experience reading about this duo. It might not be the last. The story was cute enough, and I thought the girls' characters were done pretty well.Bean wants to play a joke on her sister, but it backfires and Bean has to hide out for a while until Nancy has cooled off. She ends up roped into a scheme with Ivy, the little girl who lives across the street (and who Bean's mother has been pestering her to go and play with), to cast a witchy spell. As the girls move through the
Cute friendship story about two different little girls learning to appreciate each. I would have liked it better if Bean hadn't been such an obnoxious little brat. I liked Ivy but Bean I wanted to slap. I vastly prefer a child protagonist like Ramona who gets in trouble because of misunderstandings or poor judgment (in ways that are totally natural for a kid her age) rather than being deliberately bad. I had a lot more sympathy for Nancy the older sister and the "mean" neighbor than I did for
These are by far our favorite young-reader chapter books. The 8th book is our favorite--if you only read one of the series, read that one, it makes me laugh so hard I have to stop reading to catch my breath. We're always looking for another series as good as this one. Kate makes me read a chapter every night before bed, we work our way through all 9 books then start again.
My daughter loves this series. At first the name calling the characters do seemed inappropriate but now I see it as realistic and the kids relate to it so c'est la vie.
I am very mixed about this. It is a great starting point for beginning readers because of the illustrations on every other page, but it is definitely not a book I want to read to my daughter. Like with Junie B. Jones, I don't like reading out loud about girls who aspire to make trouble. But as a "see I'm not the only one" find for kids it has a place in comforting kids who feel misunderstood or alone or whatever. I will have to reread some Ramona books to see how I feel about those as a grown
Ok. Probably it is a good book for kids, but (in my opinion) only for kids. I mean I wasn't interested in finishing it. You know, there are books for children which an adult has the same (sometimes even bigger) joy from (e.g. The Little Prince, The Princess Bride or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). This one isn't one of them. Nonetheless, from what I have read it is a well-written book for kids.
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