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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Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways
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Not age appropriate for kids under 0, age appropriate for kids over 4; suggested age 4. -
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Common Sense says
Seuss Award winner is great fun for early readers.
updated 07.04.08
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 4 and Up
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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
- 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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