![]() ![]() ![]() I wouldn't let my kids read this book, much less play with someone like Bean. At least they only killed some worms and not the frog they wanted to catch! ![]() Crawling under strangers' dressing rooms at the store? Climbing fences into other people's property? Stealing money? Digging mud holes in the lawn and tricking people into falling into them? Throwing a frigging bucket of live worms over someone in the house? Any one of these would have gotten us more punishment than Bean gets for all of them together - which I would guess is the appeal for children, the idea of doing all these mean things and basically getting rewarded in the end (since she makes a friend and gets a laughable token punishment of not watching videos for the week).Īnd I don't find any of the exploits funny except maybe Ivy pretending to be a witch, and that's been done better in earlier books. ![]() My siblings and I weren't angels by any means but we were nicer to each other and other children, politer, and better behaved in public than this spoiled little rotter. I had a lot more sympathy for Nancy the older sister and the "mean" neighbor than I did for Bean. I vastly prefer a child protagonist like Ramona who gets in trouble because of misunderstandings or poor judgment (in ways that are totally natural for a kid her age) rather than being deliberately bad. I would have liked it better if Bean hadn't been such an obnoxious little brat. Cute friendship story about two different little girls learning to appreciate each. ![]()
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