Zelda and Ivy: Keeping Secrets: Candlewick Sparks

by Laura McGee Kvasnosky, Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Illustrator)

Overview

This Candlewick Sparks title offers newly independent readers the chance to experience early fiction from one of today's most talented author-illustrators.

It’s springtime, and little sister Ivy wants to prove she can keep a secret, but there are some secrets that are too good to keep. Big sister Zelda longs to play the perfect April Fool’s Day prank, but can she outsmart the clever Ivy? And will opera star hopeful Zelda be upstaged by a butterfly in the final act? Fresh and funny, full of sugar and sass, this trio of tales about everyday life with siblings and friends—a companion to the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winner Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways—is sure to strike a chord with young readers everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763666361
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	04/09/2013
Series:	Candlewick Sparks Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	422,703
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

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Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 3

Newly independent readers will enjoy accompanying irrepressible Zelda and her thoughtful sister, Ivy, through their playtime experiences. First, Zelda tells a secret to neighbor Eugene and then to Ivy, making each of them "woozy-weasel promise" not to tell anyone else. Later, as Eugene and Ivy dig a hole to China, they discuss the fact that Zelda told them each a secret and devise a plan to learn what it was without breaking their promise. In the second chapter, Zelda falls for Ivy's April Fool's comment that her "ears have turned purple" and develops several unsuccessful schemes to retaliate. Finally, as Ivy and Eugene quietly try "to catch a tiger swallowtail" in the backyard, Zelda bursts from the back door "singing opera, and opera is loud." She enlists the other two as supporting characters in her production of Cleopatra , and Ivy and Eugene are delighted when the fluttering butterfly lands on Zelda's nose as she lies still during Cleopatra's death scene. Each page of simple text features a full-color gouache resist picture depicting the expressive cartoon cast in their suburban neighborhood, from climbing trees and digging holes to eating breakfast and walking to the library. Children will enjoy the interactions of the fox sisters in these vignettes of unstructured time.-Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI

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