**Description from Amazon: They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon "a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies." When he...

FROM SARAH:

Chances are good that you loved Frances when you were a child... and she's still just as delightful to read about today!

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

Frances and Thelma are friends -- most of the timeThelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it's the last straw. Can Frances show her that it's better to lose a bargain than lose a friend?

**Description from Amazon: The big hand of the clock is at 12.The little hand is at 7.It is seven o' clock.It is bedtime for Frances.It may be bedtime for Frances, but before Frances can sleep, she needs a glass of milk, a kiss from Father, one from Mother, her teddy bear, her doll, another kiss from Father, and another one f...

FROM SARAH:

I love the original Frances books these early readers are based on, and the early reader versions are equally delightful.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets.

FROM SARAH:

This series of early readers was adapted from the original Frances books that so many of us knew and loved as children. This one is a particularly lovely tale, though all in the series are worth picking up.

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