Faced with no alternative Frances comes to the conclusion that although she loves bread and jam she does not want to eat it at every meal. I have celery, carrot sticks, and black olives, and a little cardboard shaker of salt for the celery.

This endearing story of how Frances faces unlimited bread and jam is a classic that will continue to be gobbled up by children, picky eaters, and parents everywhere. I love the rationales Frances provides for not eating certain food "but sunny side up eggs lie on teh plate and look up at you in a funny way and sunny-side-down eggs lie on their stomachs and wait and I love elaborate food descriptions "I have a cream cheese-cucumber-and-tomato sandwich on re bread. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.Bedtime for Frances, A baby sister for Frances, A birthday for Frances, Best Friends for Frances and A bargain for Frances. It covers questions of community, relationships, the self, conceptions of the environment, and ethics. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success. While I thing the moral of the story is a good one, I believe the story could have been shortened quite a bit and still convey the same message as effectively. The illustrations are old school and include lots of texture as though things like pencils, charcoal, and chalks were used to create the illustrations.

Little M and I are working our way slowly but steadily though the Time Magazine’s Top 100 books for Children. Hoban describes Frances's classmate, Albert, eating his delicious, balanced, varied and interesting lunch bite by bite, as Frances wistfully looks on over her bread and jam. John spends most of his time drawing monsters of all shapes, sizes and colors, and his parents are worried. I love the little songs she makes up to express her feelings about food and how they tell us more about her inner thoughts. I persisted in reading Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban, to her even after she lost interest and started standing up and running around on the bed.He carefully lays out his lunch, salts his hardboiled egg with a shaker, pours milk from his thermos, eats his custard with what appears a metal spoon. Every single word is meticulously chosen, carefully placed on the page, like an artist painting a masterpiece.

I love to read and hope to use my blog to share some of my most favourite titles and new discoveries.Now that my nephew is learning to read, the books are getting so good; I’m not sure this one will make it into his hands. Frances turns up her nose at the soft-boiled eggs the rest of the family is having for breakfast and just eats bread and jam. It also looks at the fine balance between who we are as individuals and honoring our loves, our expressions, and our desires and our need for community, sharing in a collective experience, and finding a sense of belonging with others through trying new things that might be unfamiliar (and possibly self-betraying?

Then he sprinkled more salt on the egg and went around again… He ate his bunch of grapes and his tangerine…He set the cup custard in the middle of the napkin on his desk… He shut his lunch box, put it back inside his desk, and sighed.

Join the generations of families that have laughed along as Frances sings "Jam on biscuits, jam on bread, Jam is the thing I like most, Jam is sticky, jam is sweet, Jam is tasty, jam's a treat--raspberry, strawberry, gooseberry, I'm very FOND.