Franny B. Kranny There's [Library Binding]

Harriet Goldhor Lerner (Author), Susan Goldhor (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2001 | Age Level: 4 and up

Franny B. Kranny's long, frizzy hair is big trouble. It ties itself in knots on the buttons of her dress and gets stuck in the refrigerator door! But Franny B. Kranny loves her hair. She refuses to cut it and is furious when she has to get a fancy new hairdo for a family reunion. Then a bird decides to make Franny B. Kranny's hair its home, and suddenly Franny B. Kranny starts to like her new hairdo....

Best-selling author and psychologist Harriet Lerner and her big sister, biologist Susan Goldhor, co-authored the children's book What's So Terrible About Swallowing an Apple Seed?. They team up again here with this hilarious and heartfelt story about daring to be different. World-renowned British illustrator Helen Oxenbury brings Franny B. Kranny, her wild hair, and her unique family delightfully to life.

Children's Choice Award winner for 2002.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

K-Gr 2-Franny B. Kranny has extremely frizzy hair-and lots of it. Even though other kids make fun of it, even though it gets caught in things, she loves her locks. When the family is invited to a reunion, Franny goes to the hairdresser, who piles her tresses on top of her head. A bird finds its way into Franny's do and stays there, much to the child's delight and the family's chagrin, but the little redhead becomes the hit of the party. The people in this story are all a bit quirky. Mom has a broad blond streak in her black hair. Dad's reading glasses give him a perennially perplexed look. Oxenbury's illustrations are lively and fun, but the story is slight and totally predictable.

Ann Cook, formerly at Winter Park Public Library, FL

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About the Author

Harriet Lerner is one of the most respected voices on family relationships. She is an internationally renowned lecturer and consultant who has published widely here and abroad, in professional journals as well as popular magazines. For more than two decades, Lerner was a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas and a faculty member of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry. She currently has a private practice in Topeka, Kansas. Her books include the New York Times bestseller, The Dance of Anger, and The Mother Dance: How Children Change Your Life.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Library Binding: 40 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (May 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060295031
• ISBN-13: 978-0060295035
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)