Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly

kids really get this book. just make sure ya' use an extra-silly voice for ms. frenchie fancy nancy.

Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly, by Jane O’Connor, is another example of a realistic fiction book for younger readers, mainly of the female variety. Fancy Nancy is a loveable character who is very into anything fancy. She speaks some French and loves to dress up herself, her dog, her tea parties,

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etc. In this particular story, Fancy Nancy is helping her best friend Bree plan her birthday party. The theme is butterflies. The invitations are butterflies, the birthday cake is a butterfly, and Fancy Nancy is planning on dressing up as an azure butterfly. She is very excited, until she is informed by her mother that she will not attend Bree’s party because the family is traveling out of town to celebrate her grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Fancy Nancy is crushed, and in her words, “For the next two days, I scowl and sulk and storm around the house. Mad is way too plain for how I feel.” In the end, Fancy Nancy apologizes to her mother for her behavior and admits she is “ecstatic” to be at the anniversary party. The day after the party her grandparents take her to a butterfly garden where she sees an azure butterfly. O’Connor takes a typical situation for any child, missing a birthday party for another commitment, and turns it into a lesson for the young reader. While missing a friend’s birthday party, even a best friend’s birthday party, is almost tragic in the mind of a child, it sometimes cannot be avoided. Sometimes priorities trump the fun activities of life and dealing with the disappointment is part of growing up. While Fancy Nancy tried hard not to have a good time at her grandparents anniversary party, she eventually accepted the reality of not going to Bree’s birthday party and made the best of it.

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Nancy is so excited because she just got invited to a butterfly birthday party. After telling her mother the good news, her mother reveals that she can’t go because her grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary party is the same day. Nancy is mad but during her grandparent’s party she realizes

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that she is having a good time and apologizes to her mother.
This is a very good realistic fiction piece. Although I think this book is more attractable to girls I think that it reveals a good lesson.
In the classroom, we will discuss behavior, such as what is angry, sad, happy, and excited. Also, we can pretend to act out all of these behaviors.

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Fancy Nancy continues to be fabulous! :) This time she learns that her family can be just as fabulous as fancy butterflies.

Nothing could be more fabulous to Fancy Nancy that a Bree's Butterfly birthday party. A few days before the party Nancy learns she can't attend Bree's birthday and must visit her grandparents for their 50th wedding anniversary celebration. Nancy learns the importance of family and how to change her

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mind in this cute picture book by Jane O'Conner and Robin Glasser.

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This book is good to use for enhancing words in their own writing. Nancy does a good job of using fancy words through out the story. The students will love the fun loving pictures and exciting words.

Nancy is so excited for her best friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her dreams are crushed when her mom informs her that her grandparents 50th anniversary party is on the same day. Will Nancy be able to weather this disappointment and have fun seeing her grandparents?

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Fancy Nancy book impresses me with its introduction to difficult words and its story about dealing with everyday problems - in this case, dealing with what seems like (to a young child) an insurmountable defeat. After pouting and sulking uselessly, Nancy finds in the end that she enjoys herself at the party and gets a special butterfly treat as well. The illustrations are a ton of fun, with little details hidden away everywhere that make this book interesting on a second, third, or even fourth read. I shared this book with my toddler class when we were learning about butterflies and while some of the story may have been a bit over their heads, they absolutely loved it and asked to hear it again immediately and another time later in the day. They all sat in rapt attention every time they heard it, so this was definitely a hit in our classroom!

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I love all the Fancy Nancy books. This one is about a little girl that gets upset about missing her friends party. Instead she has to go visit her grandparents and has a fabulous time.

Summary: Fancy Nancy , is a very colorful little red headed girl who loves butterflies, and saying words in French. She has a friend name Bree. Bree's has a birthday coming, she and Nancy are excited about making butterfly invitations. But Nancy finds out that the birthday party, and her

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grandparents anniversary party is on the same day. Nancy is sad about not being able to go to Bree's party, she" scowls, sulks, and storm around the house," but to no avail. she and her family take the train for her grandparents anniversary party. At the train station when Nancy see's her grandparents she is happy. She has a great time at the party with her grandparents, and she whispers to her mom "I am ecstatic to be here."
Personal reaction: I really like this book, and Nancy her uniqueness made the book exciting and funny.
Extension: I would use this book to talk about relationships, friends and family. I also would mention(feelings) how Nancy got upset because she could not go to the party, but later she apologized to her mother for the way she acted.

Contemporary Fiction

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Just like the other Fancy Nancy book I read, previously, this book is very good! The language also has advanced adjectives just as the last book. However, in addition, this book includes some words in French. Nancy makes speaking French seem “fancy” and she enjoys speaking it for fun. I like

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this about the character because I think it can entice young readers to want to learn a language too. Secondly, just as the other book, this book teaches a good lesson for children. Nancy was so upset and mad at her mother for telling her that she could not go to her friend’s birthday party. However, in the end, Nancy had a blast at her grandparent’s anniversary party and apologized to her mother for being rude. This teaches children that even though you may miss something really fun, something better will always come along in the end! Overall, this book was just as enjoyable as the other Fancy Nancy books and has great features for readers.

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Nancy, the fanciest picture-book heroine of them all, returns in this third picture-book devoted to her adventures, this time looking forward to her best friend Bree's birthday party, which will have a butterfly theme. She is furious (a fancier word for mad) when her mother tells her that she

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cannot go, because her grandparents' 50th Anniversary celebration is the same day. But her experiences at the elegant (a fancier word for fancy) hotel and party soon put her in a better mood, as does the family's visit to the local zoo's butterfly exhibit.

Like its predecessors, Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly pairs an engaging tale of a high-spirited young girl with cute, colorful artwork. Also like its predecessors, there are plenty of vocabulary lessons built into the narrative, as Nancy uses "fancy" words that she then explains to the reader. I found the central crisis here believable - often children lack the emotional resources to adequately deal with disappointment, and respond with sulking or anger - and the resolution heartwarming. Nancy's parents are certainly very tolerant! Recommended to anyone who has read and enjoyed other Fancy Nancy titles.

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Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better.