Ivy and Bean Blog-A-Bration (Week 6)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Posted by Unknown at 10:00 PM


Greetings and salutations! I'm happy you dropped by for week six of the Ivy and Bean Blog-A-Bration.


I asked some of my book-loving friends to help me celebrate Ivy and Bean: Doomed to Dance.


*Ivy and Bean are fun and funny friends, who offer young readers interesting adventures and a welcoming world that captivates kids into a love of reading." -Teresa Rolfe Kravtin

*Ivy and Bean embody all the great things about being a child--curiosity, laughter, and everything is an adventure. -Alyson Beecher

*Ivy and Bean are friends who appreciate each other's differences." -Kimberley Moran

*Ivy and Bean have never once gotten cooties." -Mike Lewis

*Ivy and Bean are friends." -Geneva Library

"Ivy and Bean are best friends that play and go through other people's fence." Andrea Lawson's daughter

*Ivy and Bean are creative, mischievous 7 year olds who appear to be polar opposites, but actually are the best of friends." -Donna Macdonald

*There's only two times a year when you can see Ivy and Bean books on the shelves--first day and last day of classes. Kids love characters where they can see bits and pieces of themselves." -Margie Myers-Culver

*Ivy and Bean are broadly appealing to all kids--boys and girls, good and bad, rich and poor and in between." -Julie Falatko

*Ivy and Bean learn consequences--good and bad--for actions that kids don't even realize they dream of doing." -Julie Falatko

*Ivy and Bean are always guaranteed to make us all laugh so hard we have to stop reading to catch out breaths." -Julie Falatko

*Ivy and Bean are Ramona Quimby and Howie for the new millennium. - Julie Falatko

* Ivy and Bean are two little girls who are best friends and like to have adventures together. Bean is more playful. Ivy likes to read." -Madelyn Rosenberg's daughter

*Ivy and Bean are characters that kids can relate to, fall in love with, and keep with them forever. -Colby Sharp

*Ivy and Bean's friendship is the epitome of the saying, "Opposites attract." -Ryan Hanna

*Ivy and Bean are examples of the kind of true friendship I hope everyone finds as a child." -Katherine Sokolowski

*Ivy and Bean are a little bit mischievous in a way all little girls want to be. -Donna Kouri

Thank you to everyone who finished my sentence.


Chronicle has generously agreed to give away a paperback copy of Ivy and Bean: Doomed to Dance and three sets of Ivy + Bean Mini Notes.


Rules for the Giveaway

1. The giveaway will run from September 19 to 11:59 PM on September 21.

2. You must be at least 13.



A complete set of Ivy and Bean hardcover books signed by Annie Barrows
1 Ivy and Bean Paper Doll Play Set
1 Ivy and Bean Button Factory
1 Ivy and Bean READ Poster signed by Annie Barrows
Set of Ivy and Bean Silly Bandz (not pictured, but they are so cute!!)
Set of Ivy and Bean stickers