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Ivy And Bean Make The Rules (2012)

by Annie Barrows(Favorite Author)

4.28 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1452102953 (ISBN13: 9781452102955)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Chronicle Books

series

Ivy & Bean

review 1: Bean's older sister is going to Girl Power 4-Ever camp but Bean can't go because she is not old enough. Bean's mother can tell she is jealous of her sister and after talking to Ivy's mom the mothers decide the two girls are old enough to walk to monkey park together with out adult supervision. Bean and Ivy decide to start their own camp, Camp Flaming arrow. As the week goes on the girls gather quite a few campers and have the week of their lives!A few activities you can do with this book is ask the children what it would be like if they started their own camp and what it's name would be. You could ask them more detailed questions like what was Ivy's idea for a camp name or to name some of the kids that started going to the camp. You could ask the kids moral question about ... moreif they thought it was right that Ivy and Bean lied about being camp counselors. Finally you could start a camp with the kids.Barrows, Annie, and Sophie Blackall. Ivy Bean Make the Rules. San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle, 2012. Print.
review 2: I've noticed that many series for girls tend to feature a token collection: girls from different backgrounds come together to make one girl supergroup. And no, I'm not referring to race or socioeconomic class, but rather high school clique, a la the jocks, the nerds, etc. What's always puzzled me is what the girls have in common. They all have amazing adventures, but it seems their only function is to collaborate on these adventure projects. In real life, the jocks want to play sports, the nerds want to go to a sci-fi convention, and so on. Friends are friends because they have common interests and values, because they have a great time when NOT on adventures, and not because they have to represent all niches like a work committee.That's one of the things I like about Ivy and Bean. Ivy might be a prim book nerd, and Bean might be an down-and-dirty troublemaker, but both girls are passionate about dramatic play. Specifically, crazy, imaginative, ambitious dramatic play. Ivy might get her ideas from books, and Bean might get her ideas from the real world around her, but both girls are determined to carry through their ideas on exorcising a ghost, solving global warming, or, in this book, starting a Spring Break camp. Having had to help design a week long camp myself, I can totally appreciate how "first aid" can turn into zombie theater and be totally awesome! less

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