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    <body><![CDATA[Squeeze the chompo bar.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Frances' sister Gloria is having a birthday party, and as the preparations commence Frances begins to deal with feelings of jealousy over the attention Gloria is receiving.  When she realizes everyone is giving Gloria a present but her, she begins to cry, then lights upon the idea of buying Gloria a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78459529">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mommy says: We read this right around the time that our green-eyed monster watched us celebrate her little brother's birthday. It helped us underscore the message that we celebrate the birthday of and give gifts to the child who is turning a year older, not the other one, who needs to wait for her o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38747241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A cute addition to the Frances books, about dealing with jealousy of a sibling.  Frances is having issues with the fact that it is Gloria's birthday and not her own - something many children deal with.  I love how it is resoved in the end, and how it shows that the two of them really love each other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57554526">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book.  All the Frances books are fun to read out loud because you get to improvise the funny songs that Frances sings.  We have read this book several times this month seeing as there are 4 birthdays within a month in our family and sometimes someone feels a little left out...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is Frances' sister's birthday and Frances buys her a Chompo Bar and some bubble gum.  She ends up eating the bubble gum, but gives the Chompo Bar to her sister.  A book about learning to share. <br/><br/>This book has a very old-fashioned feel to it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love these Frances books, they are so presumptuous and clever. Though I think how clever and insightful they are is totally lost on the kids. Oh well.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic. Love this badger girl and her little rhymes and songs. Ella is learning to appreciate her as well]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Helps show what sharing between sisters or brothers is about. I liked it. And I wish I had a chompo bar too.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes it is hard when it is your little sister's birthday.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought the record of this with my own money when I was in grade school from the Scholastic Book club.  I listened to the record over and over again.  I memorized it.<br/><br/>As I've given gifts, I've remembered how Frances gave &quot;two whole allowances&quot; to her sister Gloria for her birth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14012973">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[JEPIC-Hob]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't recall enjoying this series when I was young and was not looking forward to reading it, but it was on a suggested reading list so we took a look.  Although Athena didn't seem to enjoy it so much, I thought it had some very funny elements. To me it captured features of a precocious 3 year old...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24548013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All of the Frances books are a hit with Simon. He loves singin the songs with me and riding his &quot;Champ&quot; around the house. I love that the book has enought interesting fun for parents that reading the book for the hundredth time doesn't get old. (I still mess up Frances's spelling everytime...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember reading this as a child, but I fell in love with it when I became a librarian.  I don't think I knew that the Frances books were a series when I was growing up. Another librarian that I worked with gave it to my older son as a present when he was born.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book over and over with my sister, who owned it.  Many years later my Mother found the record and gave it to me saying, &quot;I think this is yours.&quot;  As much as I wanted it to be mine, I told her is wasn't and took it home to my sister.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was just thinking about the Frances books the other day, as I have off and on throughout the years. A Birthday for Frances was one of my favorite books and used to read it over and over. A definite for 6-7 year-old-girls.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book continues to be a favorite of mine almost 21 years after my introduction to it.  I am still able to quote the book to my niece in the hope that one day she will do the same for me.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>s her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous. `[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.<p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My sister suffered from Frances-syndrome on birthdays.  Sometimes I wonder if the picture books one loved as a child are the same one loves as an adult.   Frances still rules!!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>As her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous. `[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.<p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the Frances books.  She is just so darn cute!  I love her little songs. Great books for children]]></body>
    
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