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The precocious cousins from the ELLEN show host a princess tea party!Following their breakout performance of Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" on the ELLEN show, Sophia Grace and Rosie became YouTube sensations. After appearing numerous times on ELLEN, the girls have resonated with large audiences by dressing up in pink tutus and living out young girls' princess fantasies! These precocious cousins have charmed Ellen, her studio audiences, and millions of YouTube viewers with their British accents, delightful banter, princess dresses, singing and dancing talents, tea parties, and more!In TEA TIME WITH SOPHIA GRACE AND ROSIE, the cousins plan a tea party with lots of pink, glitter, chocolate, and cotton candy. Each one is allowed to invite one guest--and they invite each other! Ultimately, the most fun part of the tea party is sitting around eating sweets and having girl talk. The book will feature photos of the girls as well as dazzling illustrations by Shelagh McNicholas. Plus, young girls will love the tips for how to host a tea party!
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 2-Sophia Grace and Rosie are two delightfully entertaining cousins and best friends from England who have repeatedly appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show. In life, as in this story, they love tutus, tea parties, glitter, and, above all, the color pink. Here, the children plan, prepare, and enjoy their own fancy tea party. They decide on a theme and decorate the room. Each girl writes an invitation for just one special guest. While one sleeps, the other one slips her note under her pillow. They wake up to find that each one is the other's most special friend. "Tea Tips"-simple, fun etiquette-include, "Remember to tell your guests how lovely they look." For fans of Jane O'Connor's "Fancy Nancy" series (HarperCollins) and those who can't get enough of all things girly, this book would be a great addition. As an added treat, readers can see footage from past television appearances of the characters' real-life counterparts online.-Lindsay Persohn, University of South Florida, Tampa (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Brownlee and McClelland, British cousins whose singing performances on Ellen (covering the likes of Nicki Minaj and Alicia Keys) have made them media darlings of the moment, aren't quite as charismatic on the page. In this run-of-the-mill story, the two-portrayed with abundant cutesiness in pencil and watercolor illustrations from McNicholas (Little Ballet Star)-plan a tea party. They create invitations for the sole guest each will invite, and transform their bedroom into "the fanciest, most sparkly castle that ever existed," with help from magical fairy wands. The suspense revolves around who each girl will invite, though comments like "My guest has to be someone I can have loads of fun with, just like you!" leave little doubt as to the guest list. Rather than adding a clever twist, the idea that the girls can't find anyone worth spending time with other than each other comes across as navel-gazing. Tips for throwing a tea party ("Make sure everyone has their own pretty place to sit with a pretty cup!") are superfluous. An unabashedly girly offering that never takes off. Ages 3-5. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
Two tiara-wearing cousins (like the book's media-darling child authors) decide to throw a tea party to which "we each get to invite one really special person"; it will surprise no one to learn, at this dragged-out book's end, that each girl has invited the other. The cheerful but ultra-girly pencil-and-watercolor illustrations are a blur of pink, sparkles, and smiles. (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.