Ivy and Forest Rewrite The World

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Age Range
8+
Release Date
October 14, 2025
ISBN
978-0823459865
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Fairy tale heroes and fantasy villains chase one another across the multiverse in this clever middle grade debut that sparkles with bookish magic and quick-witted humor.

Ivy is an isolated, daydreaming girl in the “real” world. Forest is a scrawny, unlikely hero in Ivy's “pretend” story.

Never the two shall meet . . . until Forest unexpectedly walks through a portal and finds himself in Ivy’s queendom. All Forest wants to do is talk to the author of his story about a few edits to his character arc—he has no idea what kind of narrative stakes he is up against.

As soon as Ivy and Forest try to rewrite Forest’s story, the pair gets caught in an evil wizard’s plot for world domination. They must travel through the multiverse of Ivy’s imagination—along with a mishmash cast of abandoned characters, including junior superheroes, an intrepid Victorian girl detective, and even a rough draft version of Forest himself—to foil their dastardly foe. If they don’t succeed in their heroic quest, each and every world (possibly even Ivy’s own!) could be obliterated with just two short words: “The End.”

Each story splinters into the next in this brilliant spin on classic storytelling tropes that celebrates the power of imagination and creativity during uncertain times. Bursting with energy, Hannah West makes a fresh middle grade debut that is perfect for bookworms and kids with big imaginations. Features spot illustrations and a map of Ivy’s multiverse destinations.

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Rewrite with thought
(Updated: June 15, 2026)
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4.3
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4.0
Characters
 
5.0
Writing Style
 
4.0
Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)
 
4.0
Fairy tale heroes and fantasy villains chase one another across the multiverse in this clever middle-grade debut that sparkles with bookish magic and quick-witted humor. Ivy and Forest are two unlikely friends who could never meet as one is a character in the other's pretend story; what unfolds is a story about trust, ambition, and the power of creativity in uncertain times. Ivy holds the power in her notebook, but the consequences of changing the forest story could be over if Ivy ever ends his story because the Forest story is unfinished. I loved the creativity each part of the story splinters into next with brilliant creativity and spins on classic storytelling tropes that celebrate the power of imagination and creativity when you change things from one draft to the next and see the consequences in the later parts of each draft when you make one minor change. I loved the relationship between Ivy and Forest as they navigated and tried to stop the evil wizard from dominating the world.
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