Ivy and bean the book5/24/2023 In the third book, Ivy’s obsession with girl paleontologist Mary Anning echoes just such an obsession in my house-or rather, in my yard, which was the site of a huge fossil dig. Then we’d argue about the definition of work, and then, after about 15 minutes, she’d trot away, completely satisfied by the outcome of her efforts, and I would put my head down on my desk. Then the three-year-old would say, “What you doing, Mommy?”Īnd then I’d yank open the door and tell her Yes, I did work, I most certainly did, and if she would just go downstairs and play, I could get my work done. There was usually a three-year-old breathing heavily outside my door in those days. The big difference is that when I typed that first line, there was almost certainly a three-year-old breathing heavily outside my door. There was only one file cabinet, for the same reason. There weren’t as many books in it, because I hadn’t written many books yet. I was sitting in the office at the top of my house, the same one I’m sitting in now, but it looked different. In 2003, I wrote the first line of the first draft of the first book in the Ivy and Bean series: “Before Bean met Ivy, she didn’t like her.”
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