Bedtime for Frances

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064434516
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
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 Bargain for Frances

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060223294
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
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

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060838043
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
With a new baby sister in the house, Frances is feeling quite forgotten. Mother doesn’t have time to iron Frances’s favorite dress, her parents don’t appreciate her new song, and there are no raisins for her oatmeal. So Frances decides to run away, and she does—but not too far. Full of warmth and family love, this new edition of Russell and Lillian Hoban’s beloved classic is perfect for beginning readers.

Bread and Jam for Frances

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060837985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

Book Description
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!

What Will You Dream of Tonight?

Author: Frances Stickley
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536214477
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
What will you dream of tonight? This dreamy, sumptuously illustrated tale travels through deserts and waterfalls to shipwrecks and dragon-filled caves as a parent wonders where their child's dreams will take them. What will you dream of tonight? Will it be a midnight balloon ride, sailing on the tail of a whale, or swinging through the leaves on a jungle trapeze? This dreamy, sumptuously illustrated tale travels through deserts and waterfalls to shipwrecks and dragon-filled caves as a parent wonders where their child's dreams will take them. But no matter what adventures may unfold, the reassuring ending reminds every little one that when they wake, they will find safety and love.

A Birthday for Frances

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484410493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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

Best Friends for Frances

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060838035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55

Book Description
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.

Riddley Walker

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408832240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
‘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.

Egg Thoughts

Author: Russell Hoban
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780064433785
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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

Night Animals

Author: Gianna Marino
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425288560
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
A bedtime picture book favorite now available as an adorable board book! Something’s out there in the dark! First Possum hears it. Then Skunk. Then Wolf comes running. “What could it possibly be?” asks Bat. “Night Animals!” the animals declare. “But you are night animals,” Bat informs this not-so-smart crew. Children will love the oh-so-funny animals in this twist on a cozy bedtime book.