"Okay, I have a five year-old and a three year-old daughter, and we already own all the other Fancy Nancy books written. This is the third, the Fancy Nancy and the Bonjour Butterfly.
Fancy Nancy is a little girl who's very brilliant. I'm afraid these stories won't appeal to your sons as much as your daughters, but she's a little girl who wants to learn a word here and there in French, who wants to call ice cream sundaes parfaits, who wants to call something that's pretty gorgeous or exquisite, or -- she's very drawn to things that are glitzy and slightly older. You know, the glamorous life. Her parents tell her suddenly she can't attend her best friend's birthday party because she must attend her grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, and they're gonna miss it that weekend. In the beginning, she's so mad that she like fumes and sulks and scowls, and they teach you all these synonyms for the word being sad.
What I like as a parent is that the author's always teaching new, slightly higher vocabulary all along in her typical style of telling the story. It's always like, "Ecstatic is a fancy word for happy," or "I was so mad, I was furious. That's a fancy word for mad." There's always like a good lesson to be learned in the stories by this author, and it's funny how sometimes children really think something is gonna be horrible and they end up enjoying it far more than they expected, and that's very true in the lives of little people.
My oldest daughter is my Fancy Nancy. She loves to dress fancy; she loves to decorate her room with unnecessary little things to make it colorful. Anyone with a daughter between like three and seven, I think it's already quite popular. 4 -- stars for Fancy Nancy and the Bonjour Butterfly."