![]() ![]() ![]() We also like Bread and Jam for Frances, where Frances only wants to eat bread and jam, until she gets very sick of bread and jam, and A Baby Sister for Frances, where Frances runs away under the kitchen table. ![]() My December-birthday 4 yo has been struggling with the birthdays of all of his summer friends and he related well to Frances' complaint that "Your birthday is always the one that is not now." I mean, certainly *my* children have *never* flip-flopped like that and thrown a weepy fit over something they had just refused.but I can see how some kids might. 'Everybody is giving Gloria a present but me,' said Frances." 'That is all right,' said Mother, and Frances began to cry. "'I am not going to give Gloria any present,' said Frances. Take this exchange, after Frances asks her mother what their parents are giving her younger sister for her birthday: The author clearly has experience with children and portrays Frances so realistically. I read the Frances books as a kid and was delighted to find I loved them just as much when I read them to my children. ![]()
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