Bread and Jam for Frances (I Can Read Level 2)

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Especially the section where Frances’s friend Albert unpacks his elaborate lunch at his school desk and eats every part of it with great relish. 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. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

Expressive, pastel-colored drawings and a simple, repetitive text convey the story of Teddy, who longs to have a pet of his own. It’s a fun story about dealing with the inevitable pickiness of young children as Francis goes from being obsessed with toast and jam to finding a constant diet of her former favorite boring, to enjoying culinary diversity. Mark Jenkins for the Washington Post said the album sounded similar to Siouxie and the Banshees but praised the instrumentals of Susan Wallace, nothing that "She incorporates hip-hop scratching, industrial rhythms and found sound into the band's music, giving tracks like "Roller Coaster" and "Harpsichord" a clattering vitality that belies their voice-from-the-grave ambience. Hurwitz, creator of the Michaels family--stars of Rip-Roaring Russell and Russell Sprouts --presents the irrepressible clan from a new perspective, that of four-year-old Elisa.Well, I've become a "the-only-thing-I-want-for-breakfast-is eggs" person, so I'll gladly eat any that Frances doesn't want (except fried with "lace" - yuck! When she gets to school, she sees that her mother has packed her bread and jam for lunch and at dinner, she has a plate full of bread and jam while the rest of the family has spaghetti.

When her mother mentions that she eats other things in her school lunch, Frances admits to trading her lunches away every day. I like the way that her parents chose to address her problem by helping her to understand how boring it is to eat one thing all the time rather than forcing her to eat something she doesn’t want. Her very wise parents decide to give Frances bread and jam for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner, until poor Frances cries at the dinner table and asks if she could please have some spaghetti with meatballs, like the rest of the family is eating. Bread and Jam for Frances contains a story that will be familiar to young children and their parents. Every single word is meticulously chosen, carefully placed on the page, like an artist painting a masterpiece.In spite of the fact that all badgers are born in February, we’ve decided to do this book in January. Main Characters: Frances (the Badger), Mother Badger, Father Badger, baby sister Gloria and schoolfriend Albert.