Millie Fierce
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
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 fierce! She frizzes out her hair, sharpens her nails and runs around like a wild thing. But she soon realizes that being fierce isn't the best way to get noticed either, especially when it makes you turn mean. So Millie decides to be nice--but to keep a little of that fierce backbone hidden inside her. In case she ever needs it again.
With bright art and an adorable character, it's easy to empathize with Millie. Because everyone has a bad day, once in a while.
Praise for MILLIE FIERCE
“Millie Fierce is a delightfully naughty mix between Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Molly Bang’s When Sophie Gets Angry.”--School Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Strong-minded picture-book heroines abound, but not many books ask what's behind the bluster or represent it with such deliciousness. Quiet, mild-mannered Millie, who never misbehaves, is forced to think again after three girls from school stroll right over her sidewalk chalk drawing. "That's me," she says, pondering the smudge they've left behind. Then a new thought dawns: "I'm not a smudge," she announces. Watching Millie become Millie Fierce provides most of the story's laughs; with a fiendish look in her eyes, she files "each of her nails to a tiny point," paints the dog's face blue, and dances on the furniture. Manning's (Ten Little Goblins) watercolors bubble over with sybaritic delight; in one, Millie lies languidly on a school desk, dumping jelly beans all over the floor. Eventually, Millie is forced to work out the difference between strength of character and fierceness that hurts people, and she reforms (almost). An unexpected Yeatsian lilt to Manning's writing ("Millie frizzed out her hair and made the crazy eye") lifts the text out of the ordinary; her powers of observation set it apart, too. Ages 3 7.
