As she confides in her best friend Albert, baby sisters are not much good one of my favorite lines, in Frances's litany of complaints about the shortcomings of baby sisters, is that when you play hide and seek with them, they always hide where parts of them are sticking out. Frances gets an advance on her allowance to buy Gloria a birthday present (4 balls of bubblegum and a chompo chocolate bar), but "by mistake" eats the bubblegum, and is decidedly mixed on whether Gloria deserves the chompo bar. It's Gloria's birthday Frances is envious of the attention Gloria is getting. Like others ("A Baby Sister for Frances," "Best Friends for Frances"), this one deals with Frances's complicated feelings towards her younger sister Gloria, but while that relationship is important background in other Frances books, it is the main subject of this one. But if you twisted my arm, I'd have to vote for this one. Honestly it's hard to choose a favorite Frances book- with the exception of the first and most dated one ("Bedtime for Frances"), they are all pretty fabulous.
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