There are a few books now about my favorite glamour girl, but the first Fancy Nancy is fabulous. Robin Preiss Glasser’s illustrations are so sassy. If the Girl’s Club girls were younger, I would do a program around this book. Nancy lives to be fancy in everything she does, and she tries to get her regular family to dress up and be fancy, too. The illustration of the whole family standing in the doorway of the restaurant for their entrance is hilarious.

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