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Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways

(2006, Fiction - For Beginning Readers, Written by Laura Kvasnosky, Illustrated by Laura Kvasnosky)

  • Is it age appropriate?

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 0, age appropriate for kids over 4; suggested age 4.

  • Is it any good?

    4.0

  • Common Sense says

    Seuss Award winner is great fun for early readers.

Why We Rated This on for Ages 4 and Up

The good stuff

  • Messages:

    Sisters play well together and use their imaginations.
 

What to watch out for

  • Violence & scariness:

    Not an issue.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways

Parents need to know that this award-winning book for beginning readers includes three stories full of kid imagination. In one, the sisters pretend to run away but stick to their own yard (their parents know where they are, but this is never spelled out). In another, they make a potion they call "creative juice" to help them think of a poem idea. Some literal-minded kids may think the girls are really running away and their parents don't notice, or that the potion is real or something to drink (they don't drink it -- they throw it on their heads) -- so it's definitely worth checking in with kids to see whether they understood the story.

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  • Families can talk about the sisters and their big ideas. Why did they pretend to run away? When Zelda's book gets creative juice on it, what does she do with it?
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    Leenah
    I rate this title on for age 4 and give it 3.0
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    It's a good set of stories.

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    Jon Lovitz
    Lives in Virginia
    I rate this title on for age 3 and give it 2.0

    Eh...

    I was excited when I saw the title, because I thought it would be about Link and Hyrule, etc. I thought they had been turned into foxes from an evil spell by Ganondorf. Boy, was I ever wrong! But its still cute.

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