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When her classroom teacher, Ms. Aruba-Tate, gives her a copy of The Amazing Book of World Records during a "Drop Everything and Read" session, second-grader Bean, together with her best friend Ivy, is soon involved in an effort to become a world record holder in... something. Attempting to hold hundreds of straws in her mouth, or to break a glass figurine (pilfered from her older sister Nancy's collection) by singing brings little success, however, so Bean, influenced by Ivy's current obsession
I really enjoyed reading this book. I consider it chapter book for young readers. It still has pictures and some pages with very few words. It is about two girls, Ivy and Bean, and how reading a book about amazing world records sparked their interest in breaking a record. I felt that I could really relate to this book and I think students could as well. It is fun and very realistic!
3.5, this book is neither here nor there for me. My six year old listens while I read to her each night but it hasn’t caused any laughs, oh pleeeease just one more chapter, or deep discussions which are common with our nightly reads. I purchased the first 9 in the series so we will keep going and see what happens.
Ivy and Bean never thought they'd be friends. Bean is wild, a practical joker with a sharp tongue. Ivy is smart, someone who reads tons of books and has a bunch of inventive ideas. Now united in friendship, Ivy and Bean compliment each other perfectly. Nothing can stand in their way.This book started off pretty slow. I wasn't too interested until the second half. Bean is bored in Drop Everything And Read (or, the DEAR program). Her insightful teacher has anticipated this and hands Bean a Guinnes...
I love Ivy and Bean. Plain and Simple.My first encounter with this duo came thanks to my niece, who's eight, and absolutely adores these books. As the "cool librarian auntie", I was next in line to read them after she finished (traditionally, she saves books she likes for me to read, and I read her ones I like when she comes to visit). I wasn't quite sure what to expect, because while I love children's literature, I often find writing for kids at this age to be hit or miss - it can be ridiculous...
The first two Ivy and Beans books I had mixed feelings about. This one I really enjoyed. Both my girls love these books. This one was read in the fall of 2016 with my oldest, and in the spring of 2020 my youngest read it to me. I remembered less about this volume than the previous two. This is a really good story. And I was especially impressed with the role of Bean’s dad in supporting and encouraging the girls. When I read this with my oldest, she was a very reluctant reader and we alternated p...
What characters these two girls are - Bean is an extrovert and naughty, Ivy is quietly subversive. When Bean decides she wants to break a record - any record will do - Ivy is right there with her. And when the record of sticking straws in your mouth doesn't work, and when Bean gets into trouble for trying to shatter glass by screaming, without warning her Dad, it's Ivy's talking about Mary Anning that points Bean in the right direction. Mary Anning was the first person to find a whole ichthyosau...
I really liked this book because ivy and bean got encouraged to find dinosaur bones in her backyard and they found some but they were bones that the persons that lived there theire dog used to hide them in holes. I would recommend this book to my sister when she is more older because maybe she could also enjoy reading the books of them and it could encourage her to do something in the book.
p. 87 - "you can do whatever you want if you don't care what people think, Bean realized. But you have to do it alone a lot of the time."
Put this book in my daughters Easter basket in place of candy and read it aloud to her this week. She is six and in kindergarten, so not up to reading chapter books on her own yet, but able to sit still and listen to longer stories out loud. She also enjoyed the pictures.I loved that the book introduces Mary Anning, whom I first read about in a book by Tracy Chevalier. And I loved the "it doesn't matter what other people think" lesson, AND the lack of toilet humor. I wasn't crazy about Bean snea...
As with the other two books I've read in this series, I am not overly fond of it. Do I think it is cute? Yes! Yes I do! Is it for me? Nope! But I have a firmer grip on what this series entails and I wouldn't have a hard time suggesting it to kids who are looking for easier chapter books to read. Yay! So this is a "suggest for younger readers" for me.
What is there for a kid to NOT love about this book? World records, dinosaur bones, and two of the most fun seven year old's the chapter book genre has known. Complete delight.
I hated this book! I don't recommend this book for anyone.
I read this with my niece!
