Book recommendation: Bread and Jam for Frances

Buy it: Bread and Jam for Frances

Bread and Jam for Frances (By Russell Hoban) – While the rest of her family eats a variety of foods, Frances only wants to eat bread and jam. Soon her parents decide to only give her bread and jam for every meal. She finds bread and jam on her breakfast plate, in her lunchbox at school and at dinner. Soon Frances gets very tired of bread and jam. She asks if she can eat the spaghetti and meatballs that the rest of the family is eating. The next day, she is happy to find a wide variety of foods in her lunchbox.

The book recommendations included on this website are books that my daughter Ally, now age 5, have read and enjoyed together. I recommend the books that stand out to me as excellent children’s books for writing, illustrations, originality, story and characters. Ally and I hope you enjoy them too!