Nancys class is going on a trip to the museum. Even after a bumpy bus ride, Nancy finds a way to make the day extrafancy Fancy Nancy is a 2005 childrens picture book written by Jane OConnor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. The book spent nearly 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list,1 launching a series that now numbers more than 70 books, selling 29 million volumes. Fancy Nancy has been on Publishers Weeklys bestseller list for picture books, was a Childrens BookoftheMonth Club selection and a Junior Library Guild Selection. It also won a Borders 2006 Original Voices award2 and has been translated into 20 languages, including Hungarian and Hebrew. In April 2012, Nancy was featured in her first chapter book, Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth. Books in the Fancy Nancy series have now spent 330 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and in the fall of 2012, Fancy Nancy the Musical was produced by Vital Theatre Company in New York City.