My only quibble would be that the author mentions that Nancy's mother's favorite poem is Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee (which was one of my own favorites as a girl), but it isn't quoted in the story like the others, nor is it included at the rear. All in all, a sweet addition to the body of Fancy Nancy stories.

The artwork by Robin Preiss Glasser is every bit as appealing here as in previous titles. Kennedy's In the Motel, Douglas Florian's Picking Berries, Marie Louise Allen's First Snow, Arnold Lobel's Polliwog School, and Jack Prelutsky's As Soon As Fred Gets Out of Bed. These include: Five Little Pumpkins, X.J.

There is a section at the rear which includes a selection of poems, many of them written for children. Like its predecessor, Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire! manages to be both informative and entertaining, describing various poems, poets, and poetic forms. Will she be able to get over her writer's block.? As Nancy's class at school focuses on the subject, our favorite fancy heroine attempts to write a poem of her own, only to struggle with the assignment. This installment of the sub-series - these are smaller books than the full-sized Fancy Nancy picture-books, and are not completely fictional, as those stories are - focuses on poetry: what it is, what styles it encompasses, and how to write it. I would still recommend it, especially to Fancy Nancy fans.įancy Nancy returns in this second partly fictional, partly non-fictional picture-book, following upon Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire!. I didn't like this one quite as much as Fancy Nancy: Explorer Extraordinaire! But it's still a fairly strong picture book, and it does teach kids quite a bit about poetry. Nancy also shares a notebook of some of her favourite (kid-friendly) poems. Nancy goes around asking people their favourites, and most of those are included (except for her dad's, but those are Bob Dylan song lyrics, so I'm assuming that either they weren't appropriate for kids or the publisher couldn't get the rights). (Little does she know that inspiration has been sitting right in front of her the whole time!) Until it does, she just has to keep exploring the wonderful world of poetry. They can even be song lyrics! But Nancy has a problem: inspiration just won't strike. They can be started by using the letters in a word. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're serious. Sometimes they rhyme, sometimes they don't. Nancy then gets to learn about different kinds of poems.

The poems will be written on paper leaves so they can go on the Poet-Tree (a cardboard tree on the classroom's wall). Glass, gives the kids an assignment: write a poem.

This is another quasi-non-fictional Fancy Nancy title, this time teaching kids about poetry.

Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor