Building on O'Connor and Glasser's bestselling series, ultimate girly-girl Fancy Nancy makes vocabulary glamorous in this A–Z compendium (“That's fancy for collection†). As O'Connor explains in ...

In O'Connor's third, and most recent, book, children learn the meaning of exquisite, incandescent and azure. The book is called Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly. So, O'Connor teaches children a bit of ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The title character, Nancy Clancy, who is only in the second grade, has a flair for drama, fashion, and big vocabulary words. She delights in boas, tiaras, tutus, and French phrases.

Fancy Nancy pirouettes into middle-grade territory with the launch of a mystery series that has her emulating another famous Nancy—Nancy Drew. The stylish sleuth assumes the role with élan, dressed ...