Iggy Is Better Than Ever [Hardcover] Barrows, Annie and Ricks, Sam

Product Description The second book in the Iggy series about the lovable troublemaker by New York Times bestselling author Annie Barrows (Ivy + Bean).One thing led to another . . .Have you ever heard those words? Sometimes it means "Things got better." That's not what it means in this book. In this book, Iggy gets an idea--a perfectly fine idea--and then, unfortunately, the principal shows up, and then, even more unfortunately, there's an incident with a basketball, and then, before you know it, Iggy's flying through the air.How did it all happen? It's really hard to explain. You'd better read the book.In the second book in Annie Barrows's series about how causing a little bit of trouble can sometimes be a whole lot of fun, Iggy almost realizes that the consequences of his actions can affect others. Almost. Review “Inventive in his mischief-making but short-sighted about its probable results, Iggy has a talent for trouble. . . . Ricks excels at expressing the comedy in Iggy’s misadventures. And while humor is notoriously hard to write, Barrows makes it look easy in this episodic, amusing, and occasionally hilarious chapter book.” -Booklist"Iggy finds that trying to be good is a possible recipe for disaster. . . . Very, very funny." -Kirkus Reviews About the Author Annie Barrows doesn't want to ruin this book by telling you what happens in it. But she really, really wants to say that the thing in this book you will find the most unbelievable--it involves something green--that thing is TRUE! It actually happened to a guy she knows at the gym. And guess what. He still has it, the green thing, in a scrapbook. How disgusting!Sam Ricks is the illustrator of the Geisel Award-winner Don't Throw it to Mo! and the Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face books. He lives with his family in Utah. Twitter @Samuelricks / Website samricks.com Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1What This Book Isn’t AboutYou know those books where the main kid becomes a better person at the end? You should. You’ve read about a million of them.For example, the main kid excludes another kid, and then the other kid wins some big thing like a race and becomes really popular, and then the main kid feels left out, and from this, he learns to be nice and not to exclude anyone ever again. The end.Sometimes, the main kid is already okay at the beginning of the book, but he gets even better by the end. Say, the main kidkills at basketball, but by the end of the book, he learns that people who play the flute are just as good as people who kill at basketball. The end.The main kid can also learn a rule, like Don’t Light Stuff on Fire. Or he can learn to keep on trying even when the going gets tough. It can be anything. The point is for the main kid to be better at the end than he was at the beginning.Would you like to know why there are so many books about becoming a better person?Because grown-ups like it when kids get better. They think it’s nice.And they’re right. It is nice.Unfortunately, in this book, nobody gets any better.Sorry.Nobody gets any worse, though!So that’s good.Iggy (that’s the main kid, also known as the hero, of this book) stays pretty much the same all the way through. He learns a few things, but they aren’t things that make him better. They are things about gardening supplies.But mostly, Iggy gets in trouble. He does Thing 1, and then Thing 2 happens, and then, unfortunately, Thing 3 happens too. Does he learn from the bad things he does? Does he say to himself, Whew, that was really bad. I have learned my lesson. I’m going to stop doing that bad thing and become a better person!No. He doesn’t.Some people think that kids will learn their lesson if they experience a terrible consequence when they do something wrong. For example, if you’re not supposed to climb on the roof, but you do it anyway and then fall off and break your leg, this will teach you never to climb on the roof again. This is the whole