The IVY AND BEAN SECRET TREASURE BOX

includes 3 books + a secret surprise in slipcase box

written by ANNIE BARROWS, illustrated by Sophie Blackall

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Boxed set of 3 new softcover books, and a fourth 'book', which is really a secret treasure-hiding box, with a surprise inside! Reading Age: 6 - 10 years.

Meet Ivy and Bean, two friends who never meant to like each other.

Ivy and Bean are always up to something. Whether it's cooking up spells, ridding the school bathroon of a ghost, or digging for dinosaur bones, their adventures are always hilarious and filled with surprises!

Ivy and Bean - Both girls were sure they would never like each other, but when Bean finds herself in a pickle, Ivy helps out with a magical spell. The results are glorious: Bean’s sister Nancy loses her mind, and Ivy and Bean become forever friends.

Ivy and Bean and the Ghost that Had to Go - Now that Ivy and Bean are friends, they do gymnastics club together, sit together in Ms. Aruba-Tate's second grade, and tell each other their darkest secrets. Then Ivy discovers that there’s a ghost in the girl’s bathroom at Emerson School. What could be cooler? Nothing, until the teachers find out, and Ivy gets in trouble. The girls have to get rid of the ghost, and quick. Potions - and plumbing - come to the rescue.

Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record - Bean wants to break a world record, but all she seems to be breaking is dishes. Out in Bean’s backyard, Ivy and Bean dig up a pile of ancient bones and discover that they are record-breakers: they’re the youngest paleontologists in the world! The problem is that nobody believes them.

Ivy and Bean and the Secret Hideaway - this 'book' is really a secret treasure-hiding box, with a top-secret mini journal inside

The Ivy and Bean Boxed Set with books 4 - 6 and 2 stand-up dolls with 4 sheets of vinyl wardrobe stickers is also available - click here for more information

About the author and illustrator

Annie Barrows is an American author. She has degree in Medieval History and an MFA in Creative Writing. Unable to find a job in the middle ages, she decided upon a career as an editor, eventually landing at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, where she was in charge of "all the books that nobody in their right mind would publish." Annie has written books for grown-ups about such diverse subjects as fortune-telling (she can read palms!), urban legends (there are no alligators in the sewer!), and opera (she knows what they're singing about!). In 2003, Annie grew weary of grown-ups, and began to write for kids, which she found to be way more fun. Ivy and Bean was Annie's first book for children and there are now 8 in the series. Annie and her aunt, Mary Ann Shaffer wrote The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two daughters.

Sophie Blackall is an Australian illustrator whose previous books include Ruby's Wish and Meet Wild Boars. She also illustrates the Ivy & Bean series. Sophie lives in Brooklyn, New York

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The Ivy and Bean Secret Treasure Box 3 books + a secret surprise in slipcase box by Annie Barrows