Books like Fancy Nancy

Nancy loves her family loud and proud, and My Mom Is Magical! by Sabrina Moyle does the same thing in board-book form for the youngest sibling at story time.

If the fun in Fancy Nancy is the family loving each other anyway, Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers gives that same loyalty a much messier test.

Same proud-parents-of-an-odd-duck warmth, but When Santa Was a Baby by Linda Bailey makes the kid in question destined for the North Pole.

Nancy wants her family to change for her. In Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman, a baby bird just wants to find the one who won't.

Instead of one fancy evening at home, Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer spends a whole beach day on that same grandparent-grandchild warmth.

Evie brings bugs indoors the way Nancy brings fancy home. The Girl Who Loves Bugs by Lily Murray rewards the kid who won't tone down what she loves.

How to Be a Baby . . . by Me, the Big Sister by Sally Lloyd-Jones has that same know-it-all kid voice Nancy uses on her family, just aimed at a baby instead of parents.

Quieter and slower than Nancy's sparkle, The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy still lands on that same glow of a family proud of what they made together.

Nancy dresses up her ordinary family for one night. Are We There Yet?: A Journey Around Australia by Alison Lester takes an ordinary family on the road for a whole season instead.

Less sparkle, more trouble, but No, David! by David Shannon lands on the same note: this kid, loved exactly as he is.

The warmth stays but the stakes rise. Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson carries family pride through generations instead of one fancy evening.