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Author name: Russell Hoban

 : A Birthday for Frances
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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780064430074
ISBN number: 0064430073
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 32
Printing Date: April 28, 1976
Publishing house: HarperCollins
Age index: Ages 4-8
Release Date: April 28, 1976
Sale Popularity Level: 133506
Studio: HarperCollins




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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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User popularity level:  out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Frances books
This is a great book for young children. My 6 year old daughter loves the entire Frances series. There are lessons to be learned and always a good moral to the story. She loves listening to me read them to her. This was her newest one and she loved it.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - great children's story
I remember my mother reading Frances books to me when I was little, and I couldn't wait to read them to my daughter. The Frances books are wonderful children's stories.



Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Great book for tutoring reading!
I work in a tutoring program for elementary children. Birthday for Frances is a good book to reinforce what the kids are learning at school.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - I loved this book as a child
Frances was a favorite of mine as a child, so I bought the books for my daughter who is 2yrs old. She doesn't quite get it yet, but likes listening to it nonetheless, and I've discovered that these stories are fun for the grown-up reading them too.



Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - A wonderfully whimsical read, hilarious sub-text, great for kids
This is a wonderful story, I love Hoban's books as they work well on both the adult and the child levels. This is bascially the story of Frances, a badger who is struggling with the fact that her little sister Gloria is having a birthday. Frances does not say it out loud, but rather through her actions and her little rhymes we realise that she is unhappy about it, that her sister seems to have all the birthdays and she doesn't have as many. Something which almost all children struggle with at some stage or another.

The lovely hting about this book is that the parents are so lovely and patient, and the sub-text is really fun for adults reading it. What Frances does makes for great fun. She borrows two weeks pocket money from her mother to buy Gloria a present, but then she ends up 'accidentally eating half of it - and the other half looks distinctly threatened by her justification.

I will guarantee your family will enjoy this story, and the other Frances stories as well - they are highly recommended as great good fun.

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