Bread and Jam for Frances

Bread and Jam for Frances
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2008-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060837985

Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever!

Bedtime for Frances

Bedtime for Frances
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1995-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064434516

Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago. In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the gentle humor of its familiar going to bed ritual, Bedtime for Frances is at last available with the warmth of full color enriching Garth Williams’s original nuanced and touching art. ‘Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day.’—Kirkus Reviews (pointer).

A Birthday for Frances

A Birthday for Frances
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-01-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781484410493

Frances is jealous of her sister's birthday, but birthday spirit moves her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

A Bargain for Frances

A Bargain for Frances
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1970-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060223294

One day Thelma tricks Frances into buying her old plastic tea set. Thelma says there are no backsies on the bargain. Can Frances come up with a plan that will change her friend's mind? Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)

A Baby Sister for Frances

A Baby Sister for Frances
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006083806X

With a new addition to the family, Frances is feeling left out. So Frances decides to run away—but not too far! This new edition of Russell and Lillian Hoban’s beloved classic is perfect for beginning readers.

Best Friends for Frances

Best Friends for Frances
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060838035

Frances doesn't think her little sister, Gloria, can be her friend. But when Frances's friend Albert has a no-girls baseball game, Frances shows him a thing or two about friendship—and a thing or two about what girls can do. Along the way, Frances discovers that sisters can indeed be friends . . . maybe even best friends.

The Marzipan Pig

The Marzipan Pig
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1681370034

Who but Russell Hoban could weave a tale of life’s pleasures and pain around a candy pig? And who but Quentin Blake could make the most poignant of stories so lighthearted and delightful? In this episodic picture book by an inimitable author-illustrator duo, a fantastic chain of events is triggered by the unacknowledged fall of a marzipan pig behind the sofa. We meet in quick succession a heartsick mouse, a lonely grandfather clock, an owl in love with a taxi meter, a worker bee, a fading hibiscus flower, a mouse who greets the dawn dancing, and finally a boy who guesses at the true relations between things. Appealing to the unsentimental yet sensitive nature of children, The Marzipan Pig is exquisitely attuned to the bittersweet wonder of life and to the sentience of all beings.

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524714577

Celebrate Christmas with the inspiration for the beloved Jim Henson film — in print after over 40 years. In 1977, when Jim Henson debuted the now-classic film Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, few knew it was based on a story written and illustrated by Russell and Lillian Hoban, creators of Bread and Jam for Frances and other treasured children's books. With an enduring score by the great Paul Williams, the movie remains a holiday tradition in homes across America. Now the book that started it all is back in print, in a beautiful gift edition that will thrill Muppets fans young and old. Inspired by the classic tale "The Gift of the Magi," the story begins in a poor country cottage, as Emmet Otter dreams of buying Ma a piano for Christmas, while Ma dreams of buying Emmet a guitar. When a village talent contest is announced, both imagine their dreams coming true. But what they don't imagine finding is their real reward — the power of love, family, and hope in hard times. It is a story that reaches into a reader's heart and reminds us all that fortune favors the brave. A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year "[A] welcome reissue of the Hobans' 1971 story . . . Colorful illustrations of the close-knit animal community contain plenty of warmth." —The Horn Book

Egg Thoughts

Egg Thoughts
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1994-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780064433785

Twenty-two poems reflect Frances' observations on the events in her life.

Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker
Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408832240

‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.