(One girl, knowing people breathe out carbon dioxide, brings all her siblings in and orders them to hold their breath.) At the last minute Ivy and Bean have a brainwave. The other kids come up with some hilarious solutions. Ivy and Bean get really stumped for a long time. But here it departs from the script of the classics of children’s literature and turns into a kind of referendum on life in the Anthropocene: for the science fair the kids are going to tackle global warming. It’s another typical setup: the second-grade kids have a science fair. Then there’s book seven, Ivy + Bean: What’s the Big Idea, published in 2013. In the course of the 11-book series they navigate all the familiar stuff in the world of kids’ books - their kind-but-strict second-grade teacher, summer camp, Bean’s annoying big sister Nancy, weird old neighbors, that time they signed up for ballet class and hated it. The titular heroines, the creation of East Bay writer Annie Barrows, are your classic odd-friend-pairing: studious, imaginative, clever Ivy rambunctious, outgoing, impatient Bean. If you have elementary-school-age kids you’ve probably seen or read about the Ivy + Bean series of books. Still, he’s a pretty great kid.The cover of Ivy + Bean: What’s the Big Idea? She has written the award-winning series Ivy + Bean the also-award-winning Magic Half and its sequel, Magic in the Mix Nothing, for young adult readers (that means it has bad words in it) a picture book called What John Marco Saw (don’t worry-she didn’t draw the pictures) and The Best of Iggy, which is the first book in a new series about-you guessed it!-a kid named Iggy who does not play the cello, plant flowers by the side of the road, or learn his lesson and become a better person. In fact, she has written NINETEEN books for kids, and all of them are very very good.
Wow! Was that boring or what? Annie has written a bunch of books for kids. Annie lives in Berkeley, California, with her family. Her best-selling second novel, The Truth According to Us, was published in 2015. An international best-seller, translated into 38 languages, the novel was adapted into a feature film in 2018. If you’re a grownup, read this paragraph:Īnnie Barrows is the co-author, with her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer, of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, published by the Dial Press in 2008. Annie Barrows writes for both grownups and children.
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