Category: Children Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Type: Fiction
Pages: 125
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-13: 9780330424141
In this hilarious sequel to The Frank Frankie, ten-year-old Frankie's fascination with France could mean losing her newspaper and her friends! She also has to contend with Great-Aunt Marmalade, who sticks her nose into each and everything! For ages seven and up.
Frankie's Mum and Greg Green are getting married and going to Paris on their honeymoon. Frankie is positively positive she will be invited to go with them if she learns French, gets and suitcase and organises a passport.
But Rodney, Ima and Billy need her to focus on keeping the local library open by writing an especially excellent article in The Frank Frankie.
As if Frankie does not have enough on her plate, her Great-Aunt Marmalade arrives to stick her nose in! And what a nose it is!
Excerpt
I tell Ima that in four weeks, three days, two hours and seven minutes, I will say, “Au revior”, which is French for goodbye. This is because I am jetsetting to Paris with Mum and Greg Green on their honeymoon.
Ima is green with the jealousy of it all. “Your accent sounds like gobbledygook,” she says. It turns out Ima knows each and every thing about France, because her great-great-great grandmother was French. It would be great-great-great if Ima were French. Then I would not have to put up with her in the sticks, which is where I live.
