![]() Frances is such a girl, and she struggles because of her energetic nature and her mother's constant admonitions. It's rare, indeed, that readers chance upon a picture book describing a youngster with too much energy living in the city where "you're not supposed to climb or ride or race or shout" (unpaged) and so many rules to follow. Sean Qualls is the Coretta Scott King Honor artist for Before John Was a Jazz Giant, Emmanuel's Dream, and Giant Steps to Change the World. Liz Garton Scanlon is author of the Caldecott Honor book All the World, illustrated by Marla Frazee, and many other books including Bob, Not Bob, illustrated by Matt Cordell, and Another Way to Climb A Tree, illustrated by Hadley Hooper, With Frances in the Country, she deftly balances the appeals of city and country life. When it’s time to go home, it’s not easy to leave her cousins, but she invites them to visit and see the sights and sounds, lights, thumps, beeps and shines of the city where she returns to her loving mom and sisters. She takes a trip to visit her cousins in the country, where she finds cats for chasing, roads for racing down, ladders for leaping, and fields full of animals. ![]() ![]() City walls aren’t for climbing, city rooms aren’t for running, city shops and city yards are too crowded, and there are so many rules that Frances can’t seem to follow.Ī New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year Frances is a city kid, but it’s hard for her to fit in. ![]()
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