Fancy Nancy
Written by: Jane O’Connor
Illustrated by: Robin Preiss Glasser
Age Group: Kindergarten and 1st Grade
Published: 2006
The Fancy Nancy books are a smaller series of books about a little girl named Nancy. She loves to have everything fancy and is always bedazzling everything around her house. From the beginning they show her room just plain and the next page it is so fancy filled with all colors and pretty objects. Her family isn’t as fancy as she is, so she tries so hard to make them fancy and understand the kind of person that she is. In the end of the book she makes a mistake out in public that doesn’t make her fancy in her mind anymore. Her family gets back to the house and they tell her that she is always going to be Fancy Nancy to them and nothing can change that.
The lesson in this book is to always be you. Throughout the book Fancy Nancy is always trying to have her parents be just like her and all fancy. She finally is able to convince her parents and younger sister to be fancy just like her. The language in this book is very descriptive, so in my classroom I would love to include a part of the lesson talking about all the descriptive words that fancy Nancy uses and how when she makes the word in her words “fancy” there is always another meaning.
The pictures in this book are wonderful. They are so colorful and have so much going on, on each page. Nancy in this book is a lot like the way that many little girls like to picture them if they were in Nancy’s words a “fancy girl”. The font that the author uses is great with curvy letters in way that is very fancy. The cover of the book has sparkles and really grabs the attention of children.
I would recommend for teachers to have this book in their room. I think that it is a great read-aloud for a class. It is also a great book for students to be able to choose on their own to read. It does have a great meaning behind it, but I think that there are better books out there for students to learn about being original in their own skin with.
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