Zelda+and+Ivy+The+Runaways

Reviewed by: Peter Bonanno Zelda and Ivy are two sisters who go through three different situations in three separate chapters. Chapter one entitled //The Runaways// has Zelda and Ivy running away from home because they do not want cucumber sandwiches from their father anymore; they run away to the back yard and set up a blanket hidden in bushes where they can still see inside their home in hopes that they will see their parents missing them. Time continues on through the night and the sisters get lonely and decide to go back home. Their father and the cucumber sandwiches that they didn’t want greet them. Chapter two entitled //The Time Capsule// has Zelda and Ivy deciding what to put in a time capsule they are going to bury in the backyard. They both decide to put their favorite possessions in the time capsule, Zelda put a jewel and Ivy put her favorite doll in because Zelda wanted to put something really good in because it is for the children of the future. Ivy wanted to put the worm book they created in the first chapter in but Zelda decided against it. Soon after burying the time capsule both the sisters realized that they missed the possessions they put in. Ivy went outside to dig up the capsule and get her doll back but when she did she saw that the jewel was missing. Zelda soon came outside and Ivy told her that her jewel was missing but all along Zelda had dug up the capsule before Ivy did and retrieved her jewel. They decided to put the worm book in. Chapter three entitled //The Secret Concoction// starts with Zelda sitting down to write a haiku poem for her grandmother, meanwhile Ivy was making a secret concoction with a few different ingredients. Zelda could not think of what to write for her grandmother. Ivy was playing with her friend Eugene and told him that Zelda was having trouble writing a poem for her grandmother and he came up with the idea that Zelda needed creative juice. Eugene and Ivy then went on to make the “creative juice” and packaged it as a gift for Zelda. When Zelda came downstairs they gave her the gift and she opened it. She asked Ivy how it worked and Ivy sprinkled some on her head, while doing so the concoction spilt onto the journal and ruined the poem she was working on. At first Zelda was upset then she decided that she would turn the poem into a painting for her grandmother.
 * __Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways__**
 * __Summary:__**

I personally enjoyed reading this book; it shows the dynamics of having a sibling and how one can help the other to achieve something together. It also shows that because one thing doesn’t go a certain way doesn’t mean that you should make drastic decisions because you might possibly end up where you started.
 * __Review:__**

Throughout the story I saw great examples of character development. Zelda and Ivy start off each chapter with a dilemma of some sort and throughout the chapter they learn from their mistakes and then make the decision best suited for them. It shows growth in their beliefs and consideration of each other’s own beliefs.
 * __Literary Element:__**

Laura McGee Kvasnosky has a college degree in journalism and studied art and designs at a university level. Her father was an editor of a newspaper and she started helping her father at the age of 8, she has contributed to the paper over the years as well. When her children were small she made baked clay Christmas ornaments in her kitchen. In 1980 she started her own graphic design firm and when she turned 40 she started writing children books and has been doing so ever since.
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 * Title || Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways: Candlewick Sparks

[|//Candlewick Sparks//]

[|//Zelda & Ivy//] ||
 * Author || [|Laura McGee Kvasnosky] ||
 * Illustrated by || Laura McGee Kvasnosky ||
 * Publisher || Candlewick Press, 2007 ||
 * ISBN || 0763630616, 9780763630614 ||
 * Length || 48 pages ||