Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record (Book 3)

by Annie Barrows

Book Overview

A Netflix Original Film Series
A New York Times Bestselling Series
Over 8 Million Copies Sold
World-record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur. But how hard is it to find one?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081186250X
• ISBN13: 9780811862509
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 7.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

A really cute book...

My 8-year-old daughter & I really enjoyed reading this book together. She's in 3rd grade & it's a great reading level for her. I didn't have to help her out much at all. We both really enjoyed the story & the pictures. We can't wait to read more in this series. At one point in the story Bean does yell "Shut Up!" to her sister & I know some parents won't like that but to me, that's seems pretty normal with siblings & I think most go through that at some point & hopefully children reading this book will know that it's not nice to say something like that. We really liked this book & I'd highly recommend it. My age recommendation would be 7-11.

A Book About Friends

The title of the book I read is Ivy and Bean Breaks the Fossil Record, Book 3. The authors are Annie Barr and Sophie Blackall. The main characters are Ivy and Bean. This book is the third chapter book about two second grade friends who are totally different. The point of the first book was don't judge a person by the way they look or dress, because you might like them and become best friends with them like Ivy and Bean. This book starts out with Bean reading the Amazing Book of World Records, so after class Bean decides to read the book with her friends in the playground. One record was that a kid stuck 159 clothespins on his face. One of the kids came up with the idea of trying to beat the world record in the records. They all tried to break the records. Emma tried to break the record of putting 15 spoons on her face at one time. Another kid tried to eat 500 M & M candies. Bean tried to break the record of putting 257 straws in her mouth at once, but she ended up choking and spitting them all out. She then took one of her sister Nancy's fragile glass octopus sculptures and tried to sing as loud as possible to break the glass and break the world record but she could not break the glass. Finally, Ivy was talking about famous paleontologists who studied dinosaur bones, and Ivy and Bean got the idea to look for dinosaur bones so they could become the youngest paleontologists in the world. They found some bones in Bean's backyard and told a bunch of kids at school that they found dinosaur bones, but the kids didn't believe them. Bean told her dad too, but he said he didn't think they were dinosaur bones, but you never know. Suddenly, Ivy jumped up and made an announcement to all the kids about the bones. You will have to read the book to find out if they were really dinosaur bones. I would recommend this book because it gets kids to read and learn about dinosaurs and world records. It is really funny, but read the books in order. My favorite part of the book was that I got to learn a little about dinosarurs. I love the funny illustrations. The funniest parts of the book were when Bean keeps trying to break records but just ends up spitting out the straws. The point of this book is that it is fun to try to break world records and become famous. Even if you can have a lot of fun and learn a lot and have adventures. By Kyra

A kids review

Ivy and Bean are on an adventure to break a world record. One day Ivy and Bean were digging in Beans yard and they find fossils. Bean says,' hey maybe we can break a record by being the youngest paleontologists. Ivy says,'yes,' they didn't try that record first they did a different record. They did a straw record first. I relate to Ivy and Bean because I like to explore. When had genius ideas. I think the straws in their mouths. I liked the book because Ivy and bean break a record. They broke was they were the youngest paleontologists to find fossils. I recommend this book because if somebody likes world records it would be a good book.

Love this one too!

This is a great story along with the other two in the series. It is so fun to read and my students especially the girls have really enjoyed a new series in my classroom. I know it is a huge hit!

WELL WRITTEN AND RIGHT ON TARGET FOR KIDS 5-10

I have been reading the IVY & BEAN series aloud to my 6.5-year-old twins (and their 3-year-old baby sister) and they love it. We are on book 2 and both the text and illustrations are so well done. Bravo to the publisher, the writer, and the illustrators for so elegantly interweaving text and art and dialogue and getting the target audience with no talking down, no bad grammar, no brattiness. . . . Fabulous series. Can't wait for book 4! BRAVO!