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Kids who grew up with Jane O'Connor's Fancy Nancy picture books can spend some quality time with their BFF because Nancy Clancy is now starring in her own chapter books!
Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth is the first in a series of delightful middle-grade mysteries. Sassy Fancy Nancy is now a detective. Told in the third-person narrative, when one of Nancy's classmate's most special possessions disappears from school, it's up to her to save the day. With the help of her friend Bree, she follows the clues to an unexpected source.
Fans of Nancy Drew's Clue Crew will be happy to see a new Nancy join the ranks of super sleuths.
Robin Preiss Glasser illustrates Nancy's story with liveliness, wit, and fanciness.
Supports the Common Core State Standards
作者简介Jane O’Connor is an editor at a major publishing house who has written more than seventy books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy series. She resides (that’s fancy for lives) with her family in New York City.
Desde la publicacion de Nancy la Elegante, el closet de Jane O’Connor cuenta con tantas boas, coronas y atuendos brillantes que a veces sus amigas no la reconocen por la calle. Aun reside (esa es una palabra elegante para decir que vive) en la ciudad de Nueva York con su familia y su companero canino, Arrow.
Robin Preiss Glasser actually wore tiaras and tutus when she danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Now she happily spends her days in jeans, drawing. She has illustrated many acclaimed picture books, including the bestselling Fancy Nancy series. She won the Children’s Choice Award for Best Illustrator of the Year for Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet. Robin and her family live in Southern California.
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I pre-ordered this for my five-year old daughter. She loves everything Fancy Nancy, and we have all of the other books. At the time of the order, there wasn't a description, so I was really surprised when it arrived and it was a chapter book (124 pages total) with a minimum of black and white drawings every few pages. I decided we would read a chapter a night. We already read four books at bedtime, and I figured we would replace one of the four books with a chapter from this book. She convinced me to read two that first night and two the next night. Today she was out of school for Good Friday and woke up talking about the book. We sat down and finished the book this morning, and she sat in rapt attention listening to every word, and commenting on it occasionally. She absolutely loved it, and then played detective for an hour after we were done. I highly recommend this book. Now that we are done, she still wants to read a few chapters each night. You also find out the name of Nancy's dad in this book, and Mrs. Devine's childhood name. We can't wait for more in this series of chapter books!
Let me start by saying that my almost 6-year-old loved this book, but the Fancy Nancy moniker assured us of that before we even opened to the first page. As to Daddy and I, who read the book to her, we enjoyed it, but agreed that it lacked much of the charm of the Fancy Nancy series.
The story takes Nancy through three "mysteries" that she and Bree have decided to solve, a la the famous Nancy Drew. While this was sort of cute for us adults who have a knowledge of Nancy Drew, the many, many references to Nancy Drew went right over my 5-year-old's head. She hasn't read Nancy Drew, and those books are geared toward older kids. While attempting to solve one mystery, Nancy and Bree are concerned that they are going to get caught in a "booby trap." While Jane O'Connor is usually great about defining the "fancy" words in her books, she doesn't provide a definition for this term, yet uses it repeatedly as an important plot device. Likewise, with other words in the book, I kept waiting to see the clarification of something as "fancy," but O'Connor didn't use the term. I realize that this chapter book is intended for an older child than the original Fancy Nancy series, but to leave out such seminal phrasing took some of the charm out of Nancy. Sure, she's growing up, but I missed her overzealousness from the original books.
The story is fun in its inclusion of characters from previous Fancy Nancy books, notably Bree and Rhonda and Wanda. But only brief mention is given to Mrs. DeVine (and she doesn't actually appear in the story), and Miss Glass is completely gone, replaced by Nancy's current teacher, Mr. Dudeny. While I have to give O'Connor credit for adding an adult male to the cast of characters, I didn't care much for the new teacher. First, I had difficulty determining the best pronunciation for his name (and I'm an English teacher, so if I'm having an issue with it, one can only imagine the difficulty an emerging reader would have). He calls the students in his class "Dudes," which just made it seem to me that O'Connor was working too hard to be cute. In fact, he calls them Dudes so often that it actually becomes annoying.
Another new character to the Nancy Clancy world is a classmate named Grace. I was a bit bothered by a somewhat one-dimensional portrayal of Grace as smart, competitive, and conniving. Nancy voices a clear dislike for Grace that really doesn't have any reasoning behind it and doesn't seem to fit in with Nancy's character. I wanted there to be a lesson there, or at least I don't want a story that perpetuates the idea that smart girls are mean-spirited and unlikable and can't get along with each other.
Another problem I had with the story is that, while attempting to solve one of the mysteries, Nancy and Bree have to rely not just on photographs, but photographs that have been taken on a film camera which Bree's mother takes to get developed. This provides a necessary delay in the action of the story, but I have to wonder how many kids today actually have had any experience with film and an actual delay between taking and viewing pictures.
The mysteries in the story are neither too simple nor too complex. O'Connor provides just enough clues for young readers to make logical guesses about the outcomes, and the clues are well spaced within the story.
I would have rated this 3.5 stars if given the option, but it definitely leans closer to a 4 than a 3. We will definitely be purchasing the next Nancy Clancy story and it'll be interesting to see how my daughter grows into the books and how O'Connor grows into a storyteller for this older age set.
With the success of the Fancy Nancy series, I guess it was only a matter of time before we got a version for older kids. I wasn't sure if my six-year-old Nancy was quite ready but we've been trying to get her into longer chapter books and this seemed like a good place to start. If it wasn't an unqualified success, I was pleased.
Nancy does come across as older and a bit more sophisticated in these stories without losing her charm. The story is also more complex with a couple mysteries to solve as well as some conflict with friends and family. Of course, everything works out well in the end.
Still, as one might expect, this story doesn't have the pop of the originals. Part of that has to do with the length and the grayscale artwork which is nice but not the glorious color canvases of the main series. In addition, I found the periodic references to Nancy Drew a bit distracting. I understand the impulse, with the shared names and mystery theme, but my daughter has no idea who Nancy Drew is yet and I found it difficult to explain to her satisfaction.
Ultimately, however, we made it all the way through and, if my daughter didn't love it in quite the way she does the original books, she could follow the story and was engaged by the mysteries. I think these books will be a nice stepping stone for her as she transitions into reading longer books and reading on her own.
My 9 year old has been a Fancy Nancy fan since the very first book was published. As such, she is a very good reader. Although she still loves the books, it was time for a chapter book, and Jane O'Connor delivered! Nancy and Bree have become sleuths, with fancy big words and all the mishaps we have come to love, but more grown up. I would say that Nancy is now a third grader. The book is very well written, humorous and lovable, with enough suspense and twists to keep the reader engaged. My daughter received it on a day when she fell ill, and couldn't put it down even though her head hurt. It is very good. The only downside is that it is a bit of an easy read, perhaps more of an early second grade level. I was hoping for a more challenging sentence structure and words. It is a step up from the easy readers, but not to a third grade level. But the "fancy" words are a good challenge and open up a more mature set of vocabulary. Overall, this is a great book. Hopefully more will follow. My daughter was thrilled with it and I found the story to be very cute. Some pictures are included, too, so it is visually appealing, too.
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