Author: Barrows, Annie

Family & home stories (Children’s / Teenage)

Published on 10 October 2024 by CHRONICLE BOOKS in the United States.

Hardback | 108 pages
159 x 211 x 15 | 316g

From the creatorsof the New York Timesbestselling Ivy + Beancomes a fun and funny new series about two small sisters with very big imaginations.

Generations of readers have fallen in love with Ivy + Bean, which has sold over 8 million copies and been adapted into a popular Netflix Original Film series. Now, bestsellingauthor Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall are back with the first book in a bright new series about a pair of sisters named Stella and Marigold.

Stella, who’s seven, is kind, a good storyteller, and ponders big questions like, what do animals think of people? Marigold, at four, tells imaginative stories (her mother calls them fibs) and likes to wear her favorite Halloween costume year-round.Stella and Marigold do all the regular thingslike going to school, playing, getting sick sometimes, and visiting the zoobut even the most regular things have a secret side.

Sure to delight fans of Ivy and Bean, these adventure talesanimated with full-color illustrations of the sisters’ encounters with magical bathrooms, snow monkeys, dream lions, howling wolves, a lost Vice President, and much moreare filled with vibrant characters, creative storytelling, and a whole lot of laughs.