Tea for Ruby is available in bookshops in Australia this month. Written by the Duchess of York (yes, The Duchess of York) Tea For Ruby is pleasantly surprising. Its illustrations are gorgeous, very pink, but gorgeous, and of course they are because they are by Fancy Nancy illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser.
Wherever Ruby goes, chaos seems to follow. She is loud and scruffy, she interrupts and she finds it hard to take turns. When she is invited to tea with the Queen everybody gives Ruby advice about how to act:
I’ve been invited to have tea with the Queen!
Ruby, I hope you will say ‘please’ and ‘thankyou’ when you have tea with the Queen.
The text is simple but charmingly repetitive so that the reader can really have fun with dialogue. Published in a large format hardcover with a glossy dust jacket, Tea For Ruby is a really gorgeous production that would make a lovely gift.
Robin Preiss Glasser’s magnificently detailed illustrations show the crazy, chaotic Ruby on one page and then alternate with an imagined version of how Ruby pictures herself refined and polite visiting the Queen. Ruby is fun and wild and has ‘SPUNK’, she is a strong little female character who can still be a ‘Princess’. The surprise at the end of the book is actually who she is having tea with – Granny’s will love this ending.
Tea For Ruby would be perfect for the three to four year old “Miss Independent” in any family.
A friend in the States bought this book for my daughter, Ruby!. It is a truely lovely book & the story is pretty fab as well!