And I love the songs Frances sings to solidify her position on Jam sandwhiches "Jam for snack and jam for meals, I know how a jam jar jeels--FULL. These kids must've walked to school and had an active morning recess to be hungry enough for all that food! My daughters and I have been known to break out singing “It is sad and lonely here/eating prunes and rice/ eating all alone/is not really very nice. A hard-boiled egg with salt, a thermos of milk, grapes, a tangerine and " a cup custard and a spoon to eat it with. What I take away from this book is that having rules to follow simply means someone cares enough about you to make sure you’re taking care of yourself.

I would also like to know more about the colorizing controversy, as well as Hoban’s decision to abridge the book as an easy reader.this LP and acts of worship I both need to own in some sort of physical copy one day, they're so good at expressing emotions I didn't even know I felt.

It's a rich, lush, descriptive book that aches to be read aloud, not just in a sing-songy "I'm reading to kids" way, but in a poetic manner, like a bard or a poetry slammer. As my friends know, I abhor egg dishes, but will happily eat cake, even though it contains eggs as an ingredient.This is a favorite from my childhood that I am happy to revisit and will revisit again when my daughter is a little older. I still love the artwork just as much, there’s a lot of feeling and expression in the character depiction.

When her mother mentions that she eats other things in her school lunch, Frances admits to trading her lunches away every day. It’s a fun story about dealing with the inevitable pickiness of young children as Francis goes from being obsessed with toast and jam to finding a constant diet of her former favorite boring, to enjoying culinary diversity.I love to read and hope to use my blog to share some of my most favourite titles and new discoveries. One of the most perfectly written picture books - perhaps one of the most perfectly written books ever. The fact that an adult could put these feelings into words so beautifully is what makes this book, and this author, very special to me. Hoban describes Frances's classmate, Albert, eating his delicious, balanced, varied and interesting lunch bite by bite, as Frances wistfully looks on over her bread and jam.