Other books that I've read in this series all have a solid plot to drive the story along, but this one just seemed lacking. This scene struck me as one more example of intelligent use of dialogue, from this charming series! I bought the first five books in the Ivy and Bean series at the same time, and although I had some reservations about the fourth entry ( Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter), this fifth one was enough to convince me to go on with them. I want a wolf to follow me because I'm pure of heart." I want to be like the guy in the picture. "Anyway, I don't want to be like Snow White.
"Maybe the birds felt sorry for her, but they didn't think she was one of them," said Ivy. Everyone knows you're not supposed to eat stuff you get from strangers." I got a chuckle out of the following exchange:
Francis of Assisi - had been spelled out, although I was charmed by the discussion in which the (unnamed) saint is compared to Disney's Snow White, who also managed to attract birds. Like another reviewer, I do wish that the inspiration for Ivy's little project - it is clearly meant to be St. I thought the way that the characters turned being good - as well as being bad - into a game was spot on, as this is how children often learn complex things: by acting them out. Being bad - so that they can then be reformed - can be tough as well, however - especially since, as Bean notes at one point, it can be catching.Īnother amusing entry in author Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall's chapter-book series about second-grade friends Ivy and Bean, Ivy + Bean: Bound To Be Bad offers an interesting and somewhat unconventional take on virtue and vice, as seen by the primary school set. Being pure of heart is hard work, though, as Ivy and Bean discover, when confronting the neighborhood bully, Crummy Matt. There she finds her friend determinedly being good, under the impression that the pure of heart will attract the birds and the beasts - specifically, wolves - to her side. When Bean's day gets off on the wrong foot, and she finds herself consigned to doing the breakfast dishes (even though it isn't her turn), as punishment for licking her plate, as well as forced to pay Nancy for the yarn she has taken, she takes off for Ivy's house, hoping for a distraction from her troubles.
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