11 THE PANCAKE FLIPS

THE PANCAKE FLIPS They wrote The Flipping Pancake until it was time for Ivy to go home for dinner. The next day after school, they rushed home to finish it. By the time they were done, Bean's kitchen table was covered with paper, pencils, scis-sors, erasers, glue sticks, and mess-ups. In the middle of the table was one perfect copy of The Flipping Pancake.

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Ivy and Bean looked at it admiringly. It was beautiful. At the top, Bean had drawn a pancake with little lines coming out of it to show that it was jumping in the air. Around the pancake, she had written in her best printing The Fliping Pancake. So what if she had forgotten the other P? It still looked great.

Below the title was the first story, the one about the rats and salami in Mr. Columbi's house. Ivy had decided it was mean to say he was dirty, so she had called it "Mr. Columbi's Secret." After that came Guess the Naked Baby. They had pasted the picture of Crummy Matt to the paper. There he was, drooling and smiling on a white rug, his rear end waving in the air. Ivy and Bean had almost stopped laughing about it by now. But not quite. Bean had drawn a picture of Sophie's mom with her hair in a bag and blue goo on her face. Beneath it, she had written, "Mrs. W. is up to something!" That was really all she could say, since she didn't know what Sophie's mom was doing.

Together Ivy and Bean had written the exciting story about the fire at Trevor and Ruby's. In fact, they made it a little more exciting than it really had been. They said the entire backyard burst into flames. They also said that Ruby had saved Trevor's life by running over flames to get the hose. "People like to read exciting stories," Bean said. Down at the very bottom of the page, Ivy had written about Ball Control. She said that

they were famous for "Lizard Hurricane," and if you wanted to drown out a loud noise, you could ask them over to your house for a party. The story looked a little skimpy, so she also wrote that there were no bad words in their songs. She said that a lot of the other music that Jake the Teenager listened to had bad words in it. She put down the first letter of the really amazingly bad word they had heard. Then she drew an arrow and wrote, "Not in Ball Control songs!" There had been just enough room to squeeze in a weather report down at the bottom. Bean had drawn a picture of the sun. "Wow," said Ivy. "I can't believe we made such a great paper. It looks so real." "We could get famous for this," said Bean. "I mean"—she picked up the paper—"not many kids could do a whole newspaper all by themselves." Ivy nodded. "Let's copy it on my mom's copier," she said. "Do you think we should give a copy to Sophie W.'s mom, even if she didn't