A Birthday for Frances
by Russell Hoban
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Author: Russell HobanBrand: Harper Collins Publishers
Illustrator: Lillian Hoban
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1976-04-28
ISBN: 0064430073
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: HarperCollins
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- ISBN13: 9780064430074
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of A Birthday for Frances
Book Review: Favorite Frances book
Summary: 5 Stars
Honestly it's hard to choose a favorite Frances book-- with the exception of the first and most dated one ("Bedtime for Frances"), they are all pretty fabulous. But if you twisted my arm, I'd have to vote for this one. Like others ("A Baby Sister for Frances," "Best Friends for Frances"), this one deals with Frances's complicated feelings towards her younger sister Gloria, but while that relationship is important background in other Frances books, it is the main subject of this one.
It's Gloria's birthday; Frances is envious of the attention Gloria is getting. Frances gets an advance on her allowance to buy Gloria a birthday present (4 balls of bubblegum and a chompo chocolate bar), but "by mistake" eats the bubblegum, and is decidedly mixed on whether Gloria deserves the chompo bar. As she confides in her best friend Albert, baby sisters are not much good; one of my favorite lines, in Frances's litany of complaints about the shortcomings of baby sisters, is that when you play hide and seek with them, they always hide where parts of them are sticking out. In the end, of course, Frances turns over the chompo bar, touched that Gloria's birthday wish (articulated over everyone's protests) puts Gloria's love for Frances and desire for Frances's approval center stage.
Our three year old daughter, who has her own occasionally irksome baby sister, is very fond of this book. It has the winsome elements of all the Frances books-- the great songs ("Happy chompo to me/ Is how it ought to be" Frances sings under her breath, in protest). the patient and considerate parents, the ambivalent but ultimately good-natured Frances. I've loved these books since I was a kid, and they still feel relevant and contemporary.
Summary of A Birthday for Frances
s her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous. ?[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.
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