Fancy Nancy Explorer Extraordinaire
by
Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser
children's fiction, ages 3-8 (mostly for girls)
I have read a number of Fancy Nancy books so far, and this was my least favorite. Nancy is headed outdoors with her friend to study nature. Nancy is known for doing everything the elaborate, dressy way. The author attempts to show that girls can be girly (sugar and spice) and gardeners. Somehow this book doesn't work for me, however. The author threw in too much trivia and was too pedantic. I think that Nancy having girly adventures shouldn't be bog down with "here is how to identify leaves" and "spiders aren't icky", etc.
I guess she wrote this book because the author likes gardening and nature study, but I just don't buy that Nancy would do some of the things described in this book.
