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Ivy And Bean (Book 10): Ivy And Bean Take The Case (2013)

by Annie Barrows(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Chronicle Books LLC

series

Ivy & Bean

review 1: I haven't read an Ivy + Bean book since I left K-8 to teach in middle school. I remember them fondly, and there were moments in #10 that reminded me of why I thought they were good but there were inconsistencies that bothered me. Starting with a mom that is so strict about movie viewing but allows Bean to watch her favorite film noir and then wonders why Bean gleans some of the negative behavior from it. Yes, adults/ parents can be inconsistent. Just the other day, I went searching for some blog reviews of a book I had finished and stumbled upon a blog that is written with the concerned parent in mind. The book, which I loved, was flagged like crazy. Curious, I read a few other posts and was rather stunned to learn that this concerned parent allowed her young children to s... moreee The Hobbit movies. Plenty of violence and scary themes there. Those orks are terrifying, truly stuff of nightmare. So, okay, I guess it's funny. I did like how it inspired Bean to set up her own detective agency. But adults appear and disappear at the whim of the plot. If my kid pointed out a yellow rope hanging from my roof, I'd freak, not just complacently go back to whatever it was I was doing. Finally, the ending in which there is no resolution at all. This one didn't work for me.
review 2: O.k. I am totally confused with this edition of Ivy and Bean; a series I normally LOVE. My daughter and I spent the last hour reading, giggling and enjoying the humorous narrative only to find it reach no ending. There was absolutely no conclusion to the case of the “mysterious yellow rope.” Did Annie Barrows mean to leave it open for a possible sequel? And if so wouldn’t that have been mentioned somewhere in the afterward?? Or is the reader supposed to decide themselves if the growing yellow rope is a mystery or magic?? Are invisible rabbits, aliens or possibly leprechauns coming around and night and screwing with the children on Pancake Court by elongating and ever twisting and turning rope? Why are all the adults oblivious to the rope traveling around their mailboxes, flowerbeds and fences?? I don’t get it!!!!! Did my daughter and I both overlook something?? Was a page or ten ripped out of our book??? Or did Ivy in fact cause the rope drama??? less

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