Ivy and Bean / Annie Barrowe / 113 pages

This is a pretty good book for first and second grade girls.  The characters are seven and very believable.  I wish that they were a little nicer to other people in the book, but they certainly have personality.

The 113 pages includes black and white illustrations which were quite good in that the illustrator actually read the book and coordinated the pictures with the text.  It is a good step into chapter books with text that flows unlike the JX easy reader books where the reader knows that a lot more could be said in the story.

This is a good book to recommend to first, second, and even third grade girls.  Boys, not so much.