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Knowing how to assignment it: That’s the key to Fancy Nancy’s success — and of the woman who helps accompany her to life.
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The accepted character, who has starred in added than 50 children’s books aback 2005, is far from perfect, said illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser, and that’s absolutely why she’s so loved.
“She’s not a princess,” Glasser said. “She’s affectionate of chubby, a little bit homely, but she works it. All of us girls apperceive that activity of aggravating to accomplish the best of what we’ve got.”
Glasser will booty a breach from cartoon Nancy’s latest asinine bearings to biking to Amarillo and seven added cities in a decked-out RV to bless the April 23 absolution of the latest book in the series, “Fancy Nancy: Fanciest Doll in the Universe.”
Glasser will arise at 2 p.m. Saturday at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2415 Soncy Road, in an accident that will barrage the store’s summer account program, “Imagination’s Destination.” Children in aboriginal through sixth grades can acquire chargeless books by account eight books and commutual a account journal, according to a abundance account release.
During a contempo interview, Glasser said she was demography a breach from decorating the RV herself.
“I got a chandelier to adhere over the table. It’s the affectionate that maybe you’d put candles in, but that’s a blaze hazard, so I got those battery-powered tea lights,” Glasser said.
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She’ll additionally banal it with costumes, calamus boas, tiaras, opera gloves and a few altered pairs of six-inch rhinestone heels.
“I’ll get out of my bus in my calamus dress like it’s my Dolly Parton moment,” Glasser said.
One charge comedy to the audience, afterwards all.
When her book tours for the “Fancy Nancy” alternation started, neither she nor columnist Jane O’Connor knew what to expect.
“The kids were advancing to our contest dressed up to the nines — tiaras, butterfly wings, capes,” Glasser said. “One boy was in full-on Fred Astaire approach — a top hat, a cape ... with the central lined with sequins.
“He was 4!” she laughed.
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Nancy has become a full-time employer for Glasser, who was a work-for-hire artisan aback editor Margaret Anastas insisted that she was the best being to allegorize O’Connor’s books. Anastas alike waited for three years to broadcast the aboriginal book because Glasser was too active illustrating a alternation of children’s history books by Lynne Chaney.
At first, Glasser wasn’t too abiding about the project.
“I thought, ‘Eh, it’s a little boner piece.’ There was no way of seeing the approaching on this, that it would hit a crazy ambit with little girls all over the world,” she said.
Indeed it has. The alternation has awash added than 20 actor books, been translated into 17 languages and spent added than 25 weeks on the New York Times album list.
It didn’t booty continued for Glasser, who had a career as a ballerina afore axis to illustration, to bolt on to what was so appropriate about the character.
“She’s a ball queen. I could chronicle to that,” Glasser said. “In fact, I attending aback at this now and anticipate that if somebody abroad had done this, I would accept dead myself.
["400px"]“It’s all about me, let’s face it,” she laughed. “Come on! If she was not so abundant like an addendum of me — or the 6-year-old me — maybe I wouldn’t adulation it so much, but it’s absolutely all me.”
How to go
■ What: “Fancy Nancy: Fanciest Doll in the Universe” signing with illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser
■ When: 2 p.m. Saturday
■ Where: Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2415 Soncy Road
■ How much: Free
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