Ivy and Bean: Bound to be Bad
Author: Annie Barrows
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Book 5 in the Ivy and Bean series
Pages: 128
Published: 2008
Age: 6+
Ivy has decided to become good. Extra-super-duperly good. Bean figures that's a big waste of time - until Ivy explains that if you're really good, animals and birds follow you around. Wow! Animals and birds! Well then, Bean is going to be on her best behaviour as well! They're going to be nice; they're going to be sweet; they're going to be kind and generous and - Wait a second! How did they end up muddy, wet, and in trouble?
About the Ivy and Bean Series
Books in series order
- 1.Ivy and Bean(2006)
- 2.Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go(2006)
- 3.Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record(2007)
- 4.Ivy and Bean Take Care of the Babysitter(2008)
- 5.Ivy and Bean: Bound to be Bad(2008)
- 6.Ivy and Bean: Doomed to Dance(2009)
- 7.Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea?(2010)
- 8.Ivy and Bean: No News is Good News(2011)
- 9.Ivy and Bean Make the Rules(2012)
- 10.Ivy and Bean Take the Case(2013)
- 11.One Big Happy Family(2018)
- 12.Get To Work!(2021)
Reading age: 6+ years
Ivy and Bean are very different. Bean is loud and wild and goofy. She loves to be involved in games and poke her nose in other people's business. Ivy is quiet and full of ideas. She spends most of her time learning how to be a witch. Each girl thinks the other one is weird. Each girl thinks she could never be friends with the other. Especially because their parents keep nagging them about it...
But sometimes opposites can become the best of friends. For Ivy and Bean, their differences mean that they have more fun together than they could ever have separately. It also means that, together, they do more wacky things than any one kid could ever dream up. The 'Ivy and Bean' books are about the adventures — and disasters — created by this unlikely pairing. Sweet and funny with delightful illustrations by Sophie Blackall, these books are a perfect tempter for emerging or reluctant readers aged 6 and older.