Ivy and Bean: No News is Good News
Author: Annie Barrows
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Book 8 in the Ivy and Bean series
Pages: 128
Published: 2011
Age: 6+
Ivy and Bean need some money. Ten dollars, to be exact. Never mind what for. Don't even ask. Okay. It's for cheese. Two bags of low-fat Belldeloon cheese in a special just-for-you serving size. Don’t ask why.
But ten dollars is a lot of money. How are Bean and Ivy going to make ten dollars? Should they babysit? Ewww, nappies - no. Should they wash their parents cars? But they're not allowed to touch the cars - no. Should they write a newspaper about their neighbours and sell it? Great idea - and easy too! Yes. All Ivy and Bean have to do is snoop around Pancake Court and gets some news. It's very interesting what you can find out if you look in your neighbors' windows. It's even more interesting when the neighbours read about it in the newspaper.
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.