Russell Hoban

Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state--and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist. Read again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.--From publisher description.

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

Washed up on the beach during a storm, the sea-thing child clings fearfully to the shore until he discovers his true destiny.

"Hoban's first book for adults mixes playful fantasy with an insightful meditation on fathers and sons'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else- a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and...

Presents four tales featuring the irrepressible badger, Frances.

"John goes for a ride in the sky on Ace Dragon's back and finds him not so limited after all." --

When Megafright International flattens their beautiful mountain to put up a hi-tech plastic theme park, the O'Saurus family uses faith and lots of Monsta-Gloo to put things right.