Ivy & Bean What's the Big Idea? (Book 7)

Second-graders Ivy and Bean have to do a project on global warming for the Science Fair. All the other kids have cool ideas, and they can't think of anything. I really liked the other kids' approaches. The bossy girl with the large number of younger siblings is going to make them hold their breath f......more

At first I was worried that this was going to be a message book, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Ivy and Bean are best friends. No one predicted this, since they are so different. Bean is small, dark, outspoken - a nature-lover and a practical joker. Ivy wears dresses and reads books. She has g......more

I read this aloud to my daughter and she already started and finished another Ivy and Bean book on her own. I share her enthusiasm. Ivy and Bean are distinct, interesting characters, and Annie Barrows wrote the story in a low-key, intelligent manner that I'm hard pressed to describe but found surpri......more

A group of fifth-graders present a talk on global warming to the students in Ms. Aruba-Tate's second-grade class in this seventh installment of author Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall's series of beginning chapter-books devoted to the (mis)adventures of best friends Ivy and Bean, and th......more

Ivy and Bean are friends even though they are opposite in many ways. Bean is loud and rambunctious and full of crazy ideas. Ivy is quiet and thoughtful and often willing to help Bean try out some of her wild plans. When they come together to work on a science project in Ivy + Bean: What’s the Big Ide......more