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

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Frances decides she wants to eat only bread and jam at every meal until--to her surprise--her parents grant her wish. Little M and I are working our way slowly but steadily though the Time Magazine’s Top 100 books for Children.

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. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.I love to read and hope to use my blog to share some of my most favourite titles and new discoveries.

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. The next day, she unpacks her lunch, which includes a wide variety of foods, and enjoys it all without complaint. And then, in the course of things, Kate starts looking up what the USDA recommendations are for children, we consider the wackadoodle utensils of the Badger household, what exactly a lobster salad sandwich is, etc. I remembered a teacher long ago told me her favourite picture book was Bread and Jam for Frances so I decided to explore this classic book (1964) this week.I love the little songs she makes up to express her feelings about food and how they tell us more about her inner thoughts. 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.

I'm going to guess it was probably my sister's first and handed down to me - perhaps it was a Scholastic book? Frances is the main character, however, her family is also mentioned in the book as well as her friends at school.she is a very picky eater and refuses to eat anything else but bread and jam no matter what her mom offers her. 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. Lillian Hoban was the author and illustrator of many favorite I Can Read books, including Joe and Betsy the Dinosaur, Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving, and a series about Arthur the Chimpanzee. original sound resembling The Flower Duet sung over a twisted union of classical music and gothic rock.