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Millie Fierce
by
Jane Manning
If Fancy Nancy got angry. Really, really angry.
Millie is quiet. Millie is sweet. Millie is mild. But the kids at school don't listen to her. And she never gets a piece of birthday cake with a flower on it. And some girls from her class walk right on top of her chalk drawing and smudge it. And they don't even say they're sorry!
So that's when Millie decides she wants to be f...more
Millie is quiet. Millie is sweet. Millie is mild. But the kids at school don't listen to her. And she never gets a piece of birthday cake with a flower on it. And some girls from her class walk right on top of her chalk drawing and smudge it. And they don't even say they're sorry!
So that's when Millie decides she wants to be f...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
August 16th 2012
by Philomel
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Sigh. This could have been such a good book. The illustrations are fantastic, colorful and expressive. The language is varied and interesting rather than flat and serviceable. I'm right there with Millie at the beginning of the book when she's being ignored (though it's never quite clear if the other characters in the book are picking on her or just clueless). I love the moment when Millie feels like a smudge on the pavement, and then decides she won't be one. I can even get behind the fiercenes...more
There is a strong and insightful story under this delightfully fun story of Millie Fierce and the lessons she learns. We learn how a quiet, good little girl who always gets a small piece of cake and never gets listened to, decides to take charge of her personal power - and then some, and the results her actions produce.
We have fun reading about Millie's adventures as she grows more and more wild. The problem for her is, as she gets louder and meaner, the people around her become more and more wi...more
We have fun reading about Millie's adventures as she grows more and more wild. The problem for her is, as she gets louder and meaner, the people around her become more and more wi...more
Millie is tired of not being special enough to be noticed. So one day, she decides she will get noticed, all right--by becoming the mean, wild MILLIE FIERCE! She does get noticed, but it's not exactly what she expected.
This was a fun, cute book. I have read it several times to my three year old son, and the colorful pictures and funny story are enough to keep his attention throughout the whole story--which is a great achievement in and of itself!
I have seen some other reviews saying this book wa...more
This was a fun, cute book. I have read it several times to my three year old son, and the colorful pictures and funny story are enough to keep his attention throughout the whole story--which is a great achievement in and of itself!
I have seen some other reviews saying this book wa...more
Bullying is such a big issue that there are more and more books coming out about it, both fiction and nonfiction. Some of those titles are told from the bullies perspective but the majority are told from the perspective of the victim. This book is told not only from the bully's perspective but it shows one way that bully's can be created. As I read this story about Millie and how overlooked she was until she became 'fierce' and started behaving badly, I immediately thought of some of the childre...more
You can’t help but love Millie and feel her pain. What child hasn’t felt invisible and left out. No child wants to feel like a smudge. Jane Manning has written a fun and important story about how far a little girl will go to get attention. This is a great lesson that will stay with children for a long time. Being mean doesn’t mean kids will like you. Kids will definitely identify with Millie. Although Millie’s behavior is extreme, it’s a very funny book because of her creative and outrageous cha...more
Mild-mannered Milly often gets overlooked by others because of her meekness and ordinariness. The louder, more obnoxious children get larger slices of cakes and get noticed. When three classmates carelessly ruin her sidewalk flower picture, something inside her rises up in revolt, and she decides that she's had enough of being meek and mild Millie. Instead, she too becomes obnoxious, earning her plenty of attention, but not for the right reasons. After her behavior hurts another classmate on his...more
Millie is a quiet girl, one that hardly anyone notices. She’s extraordinary, unremarkable, and tends to fade into the background. But one day, Mille has had enough. On that day, she turns into Millie Fierce. Millie Fierce is everything Millie is not…she is noisy, rude and distracting. She cuts in line, she makes handprints on the wall, and she terrorizes the dog. And people notice. But bit by bit, people start to move away from Millie Fierce. They don’t speak to her, they don’t play with her, t...more
I love how this book teaches kids that just going out of your way to be bad and show off is not the way to get anyone's attention. Millie wanted the attention because she never got any attention when she was plain, normal Millie. But turning into Millie Fierce gave her the attention she thought she deserved, for a little while. Millie turned so bad that she decided to eat Jackie Raymond's birthday cake, and then she saw Jackie crying and saw that getting attention in the way she was getting it...more
This book is about Millie, a quiet, shy, plain girl who often feels ignored by her surroundings. She sees herself as "too short to be tall, to quiet to be loud, and too plain to be fancy" and eventually decides to completely change who she is. Millie decides that she wants to be fierce and as a result, she gets plenty of attention for such a change, but it is because she is acting poorly that she receives such attention. By the end of the book, Millie begins to realize that good deeds are a bett...more
First I loved the graphics ....most of the colors are vibrant and draw the children's eyes in. My little 5 year old seemed to really enjoy this book. He sat and was so attentive, and watched the pictures. When we finished he said he didn't like Millie. She was mean. He got the point! Found it was a good teaching lesson on Bullying, sharing, and kindness.
When I asked him if he liked the book, he replied "yes". Did he want it read to him again? "Yes, yes, yes!"
I received this book from TLC Blog T...more
When I asked him if he liked the book, he replied "yes". Did he want it read to him again? "Yes, yes, yes!"
I received this book from TLC Blog T...more
Hmm. I don't know.
A little girl is perpetually overlooked, ignored, given the small piece of cake. So, tired of being the doormat, she becomes fierce instead, wild with frizzy hair and mischief-making. People notice her--for the wrong reasons--then back away in fear or anger. She makes a boy cry.
In the end, though, what lesson does she learn? "Millie decided she liked being good better than being fierce." But, as none of the characters who ignored her in the first place were shown to have chan...more
A little girl is perpetually overlooked, ignored, given the small piece of cake. So, tired of being the doormat, she becomes fierce instead, wild with frizzy hair and mischief-making. People notice her--for the wrong reasons--then back away in fear or anger. She makes a boy cry.
In the end, though, what lesson does she learn? "Millie decided she liked being good better than being fierce." But, as none of the characters who ignored her in the first place were shown to have chan...more
Millie is an average girl who no one notices. One day she decides she is tired of not being noticed and she becomes Fierce! She starts causing trouble and people notice her. But the longer she is fierce the less people pay attention to her. Finally she decides to be good again with maybe just a bit of fierce.
This is a good story about a girl wanting attention. Unfortunately she goes for the wrong kind of attention. Beautiful clear drawings illustrate the text. I like Millie and I like this book...more
This is a good story about a girl wanting attention. Unfortunately she goes for the wrong kind of attention. Beautiful clear drawings illustrate the text. I like Millie and I like this book...more
I doubt if any child reading this will know who Joan Crawford is, but film loving adults will appreciate the title.Bibliotherapy types might use this for anti-bullying themes, but I'm not sure if the message they want to send will get through.
Truthfully this is a pretty formulaic story--girl gets bullied, girl becomes bully, girl realizes it isn't nice to be a bully and goes back to her nice self. No follow up to show whether she gets bullied again, of course.
Truthfully this is a pretty formulaic story--girl gets bullied, girl becomes bully, girl realizes it isn't nice to be a bully and goes back to her nice self. No follow up to show whether she gets bullied again, of course.
Millie has a hard time getting anyone's attention. Tired of being ignored, she decides to be fierce. Good to use in a text set for books that deal with behaviors, emotions and thinking about our actions. This could work well with Sometimes I'm Bombaloo and When Sophie Gets Really Angry. I also recently read from Roemary Wells' Kindergators series (about behaiors) and could use with Hands Off Harry or Miracle has a Meltdown.
I loved the rich colors and detailed cartoon-style illustrations in this book. The hilarious expression on Millie's face really made the story. I think kids who relate to "naught" characters will enjoy this story and it has a good message about positive attention. The only part I didn't like was that Millie made her hair frizzy to represent being bad. Some of us have naturally frizzy hair, ppl. lol.
Millie Fierce is a very bold little girl... when she wants to be. This book would be a great tool within the classroom if you are having some students acting out for no apparent reason. Or just seeking attention. It could be used as a great entryway for a writing prompt about how making good choices and helping others is better than acting out.
What happens when a little girl seems to get bullied? Well, in Millie Fierce, little Millie gets fierce and becomes the bully. Soon Millie learns that it isn't fun to hurt other people and it is better to be noticed for all the good you do and not how awful you are... most of the time.
Age: K-2nd grade
Familiar Experience: Being ignored, wanting attention
A unique look at a regular, plain girl that gets fed up with being ignored and stomped on. However, the story introduces too many characters and concepts, letting the story fall a little flat.
Familiar Experience: Being ignored, wanting attention
A unique look at a regular, plain girl that gets fed up with being ignored and stomped on. However, the story introduces too many characters and concepts, letting the story fall a little flat.
Millie Fierce struck a cord with events and personalities currently being experienced in our home. Millie is a wonderful example of why acting out will not give you the positive attention you may so desperatly crave.
A "fierce" little girl learns the attention she gets when she acts out is not the good kind. A good message, but it bothered me that Millie's bad behavior extended into painting the dog's face.
3 stars - I like it. I like that the story is simple. The illustrations are great and the colors are very eye catching. For all the good kids trying to be bad... think twice maybe.
We all need to be fierce sometimes and this book is a laugh out loud lesson in how to do it right. The art is bold and grabs your attention right away just like the story does.
A good book for talking about behavior issues with bright, saturated illustrations.
"'Watch out! I bite!' she howlded like a mad thing. The moon noticed."
"'Watch out! I bite!' she howlded like a mad thing. The moon noticed."
Wonderful illustrations. Story had a nice message about bullying and deciding who you wanted to be without preachiness. Kids really tuned in to it.
I loved Millie! Such an easy story too. would be great for Kindergarten storytime.
After being bullied and ignored, Millie lashes out in anger.
Millie learns that being obnoxious is the best way to get attention.
May 15, 2013
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Illustrator of many books for children. Her memories of being a young girl riding her favorite horse, Killarny, provided some of the inspiration for Cindy Ellen. She lives in Deep River, Connecticut.
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