The Horn Book Guide

YOUNGER FICTION

Barrows, Annie

Ivy + Bean Take the Case

127 pp. | Chronicle | October, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4521-0699-1 $14.99

(2) 1-3 Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. When a mysterious yellow rope appears in the neighborhood, one end tied around the chimney on Dino's house, the other end sitting on his front lawn, Ivy and Bean investigate whodunit. For those readers dissatisfied with an open ending, adults might nudge them toward the likely culprit. It's no mystery, though, why these cleverly entertaining early chapter books continue to please their fans.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2013