Name: Tea for Ruby
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780857073860

Sarah Duchess Of York

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and Robin Preiss Glasser have created the most adorable picture book about a little girl called Ruby who, try as she might, can't be as well-mannered as she wishes she could. But this doesn't stop her from trying. So when Ruby receives a surprise invitation to tea with the Queen, she tries hard to practise princess-like manners. Can she do it? Will Ruby ever manage to be proper in time for tea at the palace?

Tea for Ruby

Sarah The Duchess of York Duchess of York Sarah

Sarah Sammis

Every so often Cheerios includes a free book in the box of cereal. We got our copy of Tea for Ruby by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York that way. As it's illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, the illustrator of the Fancy Nancy books, the author's name didn't register when I first started reading it to Harriet.

Ruby, who appears to be a normal suburban child who one day receives a invitation to have tea with the Queen. Her family reminds her of her manners and she practices so she'll be ready. Tea with the Queen ends up being tea with her grandmother. Now the grandmother in the book is drawn like any generic grandmother but it was on this page that things clicked into place.

See Harriet asked how it was the grandmother could possibly be a queen. And I blurted out something like, "the pictures are wrong!" I gleefully explained (or tried) who the author was and how her two daughters are in fact princess and have a queen for a grandmother. I showed her a picture of Queen Elizabeth II. The funny thing, she didn't believe me. My princess obsessed daughter doesn't believe they actually exist.

Tea for Ruby

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