The Children's Choice List book, Fancy Nancy, was written by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. This book is about a young girl who loves being fancy. She loves replaces ordinary words with fancy words and dressing as fancy as she can. Nancy is not like the rest of her family, who doesn't even put sprinkles on their ice cream! Fancy things that Nancy does are, writing with a plume (a fancy way of saying feather), learning french (because everything the French say sounds fancy), wears lace-trimmed socks to place soccer, puts little frilly toothpicks in sandwiches and wears her tiara all the time. Also, Nancy's favorite color is fuchsia because thats a fancy way of saying purple. One day, Nancy decides that she wants to teach the rest of her family how to be fancy. She posts an ad for classes on the refridgerator. "Learn to be fancy with lessons from Nancy. Start today! Easy! Fun! Free!" Her family attends her lessons and once they become fancy too, they decide to go out to eat at The King's Crown. They get into their "limousine" and their dad acts as their chauffeur (a fancy word for driver). After an evening of dining on pizza, holding their pinky's up and calling each other darling, it is time for dessert. Nancy and her family order parfaits (a fancy word for ice cream). Nancy goes to get the tray of parfaits when she trips and slips and spills everything on the floor. Embarassed and not feeling fancy anymore Nancy wants to go home. After Nancy has cleaned up and is in her dressing gown (a fancy word for bathrobe) she feels much better and is finally ready for those parfaits. Nancy thanks her parents for being fancy with her tonight. When they tuck her in bed, her parents tell her they love her and Nancy replies, "I love you" because there is no better or fancier way of saying that.
I think this is a great book because it is very entertaining and the illustrations are great and add such meaning to the story. This book also has many new vocabulary words children probably have never heard of before. They use the words plume, fuchsia, accessories, posh, limousine, chauffeur, parfaits and Merci. All of these new words can help a child expand their vocabulary and learn about the French language. Some of the French words incorporated are Merci for thank you and parfait for ice cream.
This book spent nearly 100 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, has been on Publisher's Weekly bestsellers list for picture books, was a Children's Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a Junior Library Guide selection. It also won a "Border's 2006 Original Voices" award and has been translated into 17 different languages.
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