Keep an Eye on Ivy 
By Barroux
Son's Review
Thumbs-middle. In the middle of good, bad, and boring. They're all mashed together in one, which makes it thumbs-middle.
Mom's Review
T sums it up pretty well. Keep an Eye on Ivy is cute, but not our favorite. It's the story of a little boy's plant that secretly eats one of his family members each day. We have fun reading it (I do voices), looking for the clues that indicate Ivy's culpability in the disappearances of family members, and then talking about all the things that don't make sense. I think we may spend more time debating how the family could survive inside the plant than we do actually reading the text. The family is fine, by the way; they are spat out at the end of the book. There is one pop-up page where the plant jumps out to gobble you. T enjoys making the plant chomp each of us. The short text and repetition are easy for an emergent reader to commit to memory and then re-read to him/herself.
Cute, but not compelling.
Published November 10, 2020
Son's Review
Thumbs-middle. In the middle of good, bad, and boring. They're all mashed together in one, which makes it thumbs-middle.
The pop-out page is my favorite page.
I'm not too crazy about it, but I like it.
T sums it up pretty well. Keep an Eye on Ivy is cute, but not our favorite. It's the story of a little boy's plant that secretly eats one of his family members each day. We have fun reading it (I do voices), looking for the clues that indicate Ivy's culpability in the disappearances of family members, and then talking about all the things that don't make sense. I think we may spend more time debating how the family could survive inside the plant than we do actually reading the text. The family is fine, by the way; they are spat out at the end of the book. There is one pop-up page where the plant jumps out to gobble you. T enjoys making the plant chomp each of us. The short text and repetition are easy for an emergent reader to commit to memory and then re-read to him/herself.
Cute, but not compelling.
Note: A review copy was provided by Thames and Hudson in exchange for an honest review.
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