READ THIS: Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas by Jane O'Connor and Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
Peachy Deegan just loves Fancy Nancy! Check out what we thought of the first of the series. And what could be better this time of year for every little girl on your Christmas list than Fancy Nancy Splendiforous Christmas?! The Whom You Know Petite Peachy panel just loves her too:
Jane O'Connor's Fancy Nancy Splendiforous Christmas is an adorable book for young girls. Fancy Nancy is a delightful little girl who likes to fancy things up, making the simplest things more special. In this Christmas edition, we find Nancy in all her glory. From picking out and decorating the tree, to making cookies and wrapping presents, she makes even the simplest of traditions seem extravagant. Like other Fancy Nancy books, though, there's more to the story than a little girl who likes to transform plain into elaborate. In this story, Nancy's plans for a magnificent Christmas tree are put on hold when she accidentally breaks the piece de resistance - a spinning, flashing, color-changing tree-topper she bought herself. When her grandfather suggests, "When life gives you cracked eggs, make eggnog," Nancy makes the best of a disappointing situation. As in all of her books, Nancy is an inspiring character, encouraging all of us to make the most of what we have. Little girls will love her for her imagination and creativity in making the most mundane things seem extraordinary. Nancy sums it up best with, "There's no such thing as too much tinsel!" This holiday book is a great addition to any collection.
This has received many accolades:
#1 New York Times bestseller
USA Today bestseller
Wall Street Journal bestseller
Publishers Weekly bestseller
IndieBound bestseller
With more than 8 million books sold since the series launch in December 2005 and over 175 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the Fancy Nancy franchise shows no sign of slowing down. Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser have appeared on The Today Show and on The Martha Stewart Show and have been featured in over 100 daily newspapers. The Fancy Nancy series has been translated into fourteen languages to date. In 2008, Fancy Nancy was named the Book Character of the Year by Global License. Fancy Nancy also received two nominations for the Toy Industry Association’s Toy of the Year Awards, two nominations for the 2009 LIMA International Licensing Excellence Awards and was named the Best Character Brand Program of the Year.
And, as if conquering the book world wasn’t enough……since 2008, the Fancy Nancy licensees have doubled to include dolls, dresses, hats, tiaras, shoes, party goods, calendars, bedding, stationery, board games, card games, puzzles, backpacks, toddler and girl apparel and much, much more!
Jane O’Connor graduated from Smith College and is an editor at a major publishing house. She is the author of more than fifty books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy,Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy, and Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, and the Nina, Nina Ballerina stories, illustrated by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan. Fancy Nancy won the Borders Original Voices Award for picture books in 2006. Jane has two grown sons, Robby and Teddy. Her sister, Jill Abramson, is the Managing Editor of the New York Times. Jane was born, bred and still lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, Jim, and their canine companion, Arrow.
Robin Preiss Glasser graduated from the Professional Children’s School in New York City. She was a soloist with the Pennsylvania Ballet for eleven years and has received a BFA degree from Parsons School of Design. Robin has designed theatre and ballet sets and costumes, playbills and posters. Her first book, Judith Viorst’s Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move was made into a musical and produced by The Kennedy Center in 2003. She received an ALA Notable Book Award for You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, also an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. America, A Patriotic Primer, written by Lynne Cheney, was published in May 2002, and was #1 on the BookSense and New York Times Bestseller Lists, where it stayed for 5 months. A second book by the team, A is for Abigail, followed in 2003 to critical success and was again a New York Times Bestseller. Robin is now the illustrator of the beloved and bestselling Fancy Nancy series. She lives in Southern California with her husband, attorney Robert Berman, and her children, Sasha and Benjamin.
