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Ivy and Bean Doomed to Dance
By Barrows, Annie
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-81186-266-0
- Publisher
- Chronicle
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Gr 2-3 Second-graders Ivy and Bean return to their mischievous ways as they beg their parents for ballet lessons. They get what they want, but class isn't exactly what they expected. Instead of the "kicking" and sword they saw in a picture of the ballet "Giselle", they...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Perusing The Royal Book of Ballet, Ivy and Bean admire Giselle's attitude in a picture in which she appears to have kicked a bad guy in the head with her pointed toe ("Wow...she showed him"). The friends beg for ballet lessons, promising their moms not to quit or complain—and almost immediately regret their haste. Bean is bored ("Where was the leaping? Where was the kicking?"), and Ivy keeps falling over and getting hurt. But the final humil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons--and almost immediately regret it; Bean is bored and Ivy keeps falling. The final humiliation...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
