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On a day like any other, Kleinzeit gets fired. Hours later, he finds himself in hospital with a pair of adventurous pyjamas and a recurring geometrical pain. Here, he falls instantly in love with a beautiful night nurse called Sister. And together they are pitched headlong into a wild and flickering world of mystery Kleinzeit. In German that means 'hero', or 'smalltime'. It depends on whom you ask. 'Russell Hoban is our Ur-novelist, a maverick voice that is like no other' - "Sunday Telegraph". ... Read more

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outstanding
This is simply a great novel.A good, quick read, but heavy and rich like a delicious cake.So many layers and interesting nuance.And the language is great, a little "British" here and there but nothing too bad.I think Hoban's themes are pretty constant, and this book follows those pretty well, but it really is fantastic.Loved this one.

A smalltime Hero
Quite simply the best, most mysterious, other-wordly book I've read.And re-read. Times 4.Kleinzeit, protagonist and smalltime Hero, lives in a numinous universe populated by characters such as Sky, Hospital, Bed, Death, etc.Excellent. ... Read more

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In a not-so-distant future when lions are extinct Jachin-Boaz, a middle-aged mapmaker, leaves home with the wonderful map that was to tell his son where to find everything. In the ruins of a palace at Nineveh, his son Boaz-Jachin finds the wall-carving of a great lion dying on the spear of an ancient king. In a series of rituals, he evokes the long-dead lion and sends him out to stalk his father. Then he follows on the lion's track. ... Read more

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fascinating book
an almost but not quite fantasy about the relationships between a man, his son and his father and a lion that may or may not eat them.The kind of book that you think about for a long time afterwards.quite magical

Fathers and Sons (and Lions)
An early novel from the supremely talented Russell Hoban, this is a well-crafted slice of magic realism set in an unnamed country somewhere bordering the Black Sea in that part of the world so fascinating to outsiders, that is neither entirely European, Asian nor Arabic.

This is a novel about about fathers and sons. Jachin-Boaz makes maps in a small town: all kinds of maps, from the mundane to the more bizarre; for example, a map for voyeurs. He creates the ultimate map for his son, Boaz-Jachin, which will enable him to find everything, but Boaz-Jachin, the dreamer, rejects it because will not help him locate the long-extinct lions. Depressed and disatisfied, Jachin-Boaz leaves his wife and son for the city and makes a new life for himself.

Boaz-Jachin meanwhile conjures up a lion, neither entirely real nor entirely metaphysical, from ancient carvings, which stalks his father in the city. He also leaves his home and searches for his father, with only the map, a guitar and his good looks to keep him on track. But, not knowing where to start, he heads off into the unknown, and experiences a picaresque series of surreal encounters and events along the way.

The book is is full of humour as well as being quite a serious meditation on love, family relationships, and on what life lacks without mystery. It is also beautifully written, economical in style, concludes well and does not outstay its welcome. Read it, and you'll find yourself wanting to seek out Hoban's other novels too.

Rare style
I purchased this book after reading his "Riddley Walker" masterpiece.I subsequently lost the book to a 'borrower' as so often happens.The book is short, but unforgettable - Hoban has a mythic imagination and is quite at home with metaphysics and storytelling.This reads like a New Age personal transformation book to the simple reader, but it is much more literary in it's contstruction than that genre.I hope that by reading this, others will be encouraged to track this book down and try it - with Hoban, perseverance to his style has a huge reward. ... Read more

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SOPHISTICATED ROMANCE

Not well-known here, expatriate American Hoban is a somebody to the Brits. This novel is very well-written. Interesting characters, witty exchanges, literature that wastes no punches.

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The details make the book
This is another book I read many years ago as a child and have remembered for decades.Harvey is so thrilled to have a secret hideout where he can get away from his bossy "mean and rotten" big sister Mildred, who in turn thinks Harvey is "stupid and no-good".But after a while, he gets a little bored with hiding out.Unbeknownst to him, Mildred also has a few secrets up the sleeve of her pretty flowered dress.

I remember being fascinated with the preparations that the little animals made for Harvey's trip to the hideout and Mildred's tea party.Harvey packing his little bundle of trip necessities with care, rafting away down the river and settling down in his very own cave looked like such a fun adventure. Harvey and Mildred also frown and bicker with each other very realistically (and their mom responds realistically for them to cut it out.) As a child I was also as surprised as Harvey at Mildred's little secret.Although the story is mostly about a big sister and a little brother, you don't have to have a sibling or bicker with them to enjoy Harvey's big adventure and the accompanying lesson.

One of my very favorites as a child...
This book was one of my very favorites as a child, and my children adore this book as well (my mother has the original copy and they love for me to read it to them when we visit her house!).My children always giggle when Harvey and Mildred stick their tongues out at each other and call each other "stupid, no-good, loud-mouthed and bossy"!I always wished I could have a secret underground hideout across a lake in the woods, and a raft to use to get there.Two of my other favorites (and my childrens') are Miss Suzy and Miss Twiggley's Tree - fabulous stories and fabulous illustrations!

An absolute favorite childhood book!
My grandmother, who was a school principal and also gave me more books than toys, would read this, tirelessly, over and over again from the time I couldn't write out my whole name, until I could read it myself (but still wanted gramma to read it to me).I didn't even have siblings at the time, but I absolutely adored this story!I still have the original copy where I practiced writing my name in the cover, but still couldn't make an S come out right.To this day, almost 3 decades later, I still remember Mildred's beautiful party dress with dirt thrown on it by Harvey, the little picture of an Indian Harvey put on the wall of his cave--the tea party Mildred had with her doll (was her name Lucinda?)Those illustrations were amazing.I look forward to reading this over and over again to every child I come in contact with!!!

A childhood favorite for me as well...:)
Coming from a family of schooteachers, my mother successfully made sure that I always had more books than toys.I may have resented it as a child, but as an adult, I look back with nothing but gratitude and appreciation.Harvey's Hideout was one of my very favorite books. I read it countless times. It is such an endearing story and I can remember the beautiful, vibrant illustrations as if I saw them yesterday. I loved Mildred, as mean as she was!I loved her independence...her creativity...and her yellow-flowered dress!To me the story showed the importance of family and acceptance and love for one another, even if it's a brother whom you just wish would go away!They say that "Books are your friends" and Harvey's Hideout was one of my very best. If I am ever fortunate enough to come across a copy again, it will have a permanent place in my book collection.A must-read for children of all family structures, in my opinion...a real treasure. ~Enjoy~

one of Russell Hoban's best
A childhood favorite! I read my copy to my children every year when we come to visit the grandparents.The book is so worn that it is not longer attached to the binding but my son and daughter love to hear about Mildren and Harvey. They can really relate to the brother sister name calling! They are past picture books but we still enjoy the read aloud experience. I wish it was still in print. I would give as gifts to families with sibling rivalry! a Fabuolus book! ... Read more

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He climbs a ladder to reach another man's wife and gives himself up to her beauty, but then Pilgermann descends into a mob of peasants inspired by the Pope to shed the blood of Jews. Alone on the cobblestones, mutilated and unmanned, he cries out to Israel, to the Lord his God, to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. He is answered instead by Jesus Christ: 'I'm the one you talk to from now on.' Every day is the Day of Reckoning and the judgement Christ brings is the start of straight action. Pilgermann hears a voice from within and becomes a pilgrim. Through time and war and Death itself, he makes his way along the road to Jerusalem, struggling to find God in the horror that surrounds him. ... Read more

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Questions on a grand scale, asked by a little man
Pilgermann is a complex and somewhat (purposefully) confused portrayal of death and theology.The story involves the final year (maybe two) in the life of a Jewish doctor--he names himself Pilgermann--during the early years of the First Crusade.Pilgermann's story involves sin, punishment (not for the sin of adultery, but for "the" Jewish sin of Christ's crucifixion), pilgrimage, near-death experiences, a significant theological/artistic undertaking, and final life-and-death encounters.Hoban delves deep into all three Abrahamic religions to provide the foundation for this book.His prose is dense and hard to read, but regularly shows brilliance and provides astonishing insights.The book is truly amazing in its depth of knowledge--I regularly stopped to read other material for sources--and in its base humanity.It resonates with anger for the injustices of life, and is blunt in the extreme in its portrayal of death.And yet, I found the story compelling and positive in its whole.

Pilgermann is a small character in spirit and accomplishment, a lonely man that seems to have no real past or future.Is he representative of humanity in general, or simply the more cynical and defeated among us?When he is not just passing unanimated through life, he is captured by the present.He is often overwhelmed by the huge universe about him.His only real interest in life seems to be a single encounter with a woman at the beginning of the book.As his story unfolds, it seems that Pilgermann comes to no significant clarity in his life, but is regularly filled with amazing insights and depth of knowledge.This is a book that asks very serious questions, and forces the reader to provide answers.

Pilgermann has very little in common with Hoban's Riddley Walker, a book that I have treasured since my youth.The English here is clear, but the story much more complex.Hoban has once again provided a very serious and signficant gem, but on a completely different plane of existence.

Nearly as good as Riddley Walker
Hoban's adult work (which consists are far too few books) is among some of the most brilliant literature I have read, and Riddley Walker and Pilgermann are my favorites.Perhaps less comprehensible then RW,Pilgermann is a narrative of the perpetual quest for that which isunattainable (and this is far too simplistic an explanation for an authorwho clearly burns through Jung for pleasure reading).The story beingscenturies after the main character has died (but continues to exist in oneform or another) and recounts his attempts at making a pilgrimage toJerusalem.I am leaving out far too much because the story is filled witha dark and unexplainable nature that sometimes comes out as terriblyviolent, cruel, or simply boggling.The narrator of course is sidetrackedin his quest, sold into slavery (he is made a eunich too incidentally), butat last comes to a certain acceptance of the moment, despite his own wishto continue along on his journey. The story becomes caught up in theconstruction of 'hidden lion', a massive tile design which becomes a sacredobject to the community.From here, Hoban analyses one of his mosthaunting themes--that of the sacred entering into the common place, it'sdilution, and finally it's inevitable desicration.It would be a spoilerto say that much more of the plot itself, but in style the books reads verymuch as some apocryphal Christian work.There is much citing from theQuran and the book includes a 'reference' page of biblical and otherreligious references.Ultimately though, Pilergmann is the strangestreligiously grounded work I have ever read, making Gnostic works whichfreaked out Philip K. Dick so much seem comparitively normal.At it'sbest, Pilgermann captures the hopes and fears of the all-too-small humananimal who has only mistakenly assumed that he has the world under hiscontrol. ... Read more

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Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who was clearly compelled by the same bat. What did it mean? Sarah dealt in antiques and Roswell soon ran into her stalls in Chelsea and Covent Garden. His calling, which grew out of an obsession with crash-test dummies, was a bit harder to explain. It led from the invention of a popular children's toy to lucrative commissions from a Parisian sybarite for wooden working models with very adult moving parts. Both Roswell and Sarah had lost their spouses and were still grieving in their different ways. And then Christ started putting a hand in - literally - when a fragment of an ancient crucifix fetched up in one of Sarah's antique lots.Between some compulsion conveyed by this hand and Sarah's natural urge to make improvements in people, Roswell's work took a surprising new turnRussell Hoban's delicious new novel combines much about art-traditional and conceptual-with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques, pornography and a charming tale of romance. ... Read more

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Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad luck. Fascinated by Christabel, diabetologist Elias Newman is keen to know her better but she's afraid of what might happen. Taking the reader from the River Lea via a haunted woodland bog, out to the crash of the Pacific surf on Kahakuloa Head in the Hawaiian Islands, this is Russell Hoban at his engrossing, inimitable best. ... Read more

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'This is it this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at every level-Lola filling Max's emptiness and vice versa.But Max had also always craved the recognition of another sort of woman, the sort who had been Homecoming Queen at her high school-just as the tempting Lula Mae Flowers had been back in Texas. Why did Max have to meet Lula Mae just when he'd found his destiny woman in Lola? And if Lola embodied everything Max longed for, how could there be anything left over for Texan ex-Homecoming Queens? ... Read more

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A love story in playful mind games
London-based American writer Hoban, who has written 12 novels for adults and over 60 children's books, gives us London-based (possibly American - he's always being taken for a visitor) writer Max who writes "novels that don't sell, children's picture books that do." One of Hoban's novels is the majorly successful "Riddley Walker," but Max is also about 35 years younger than Hoban, so the comparison, invited by his story-within-a-story form, holds and the dedication to a friend, "a.k.a. known as Seamus Flannery," the character who happens to be Max's best friend, reinforces it.

The book opens in 2001 when Max, suffering "blighter's rock," over both his novel and his children's book, collects an unlabeled CD in the mail, and goes to meet Seamus for lunch. Suddenly "the world becomes not there and he has to stop in his tracks while he sees nothing but moving shapes of black. ...He'd like to think it's his mind playing up but this feels as if it's coming from somewhere else. The black shapes are as sharp as double-edged razor blades and Max fears that if he makes a wrong move blood will come out of his eyes and ears and nose and mouth. What would be a wrong move? A wrong thought?"

When the world returns, a foul smelling, ebony-skinned dwarf is writhing on the ground toward him and demanding to be carried. He is heavy, and while no one else can see him, Max has to claim an injured back to explain his posture. With the help of his mind (a major, talkative and sensible character) he places the dwarf as Apasmara, the Hindu demon of forgetfulness and, with a little more help, remembers the CD, an Indian raga. "Lola!" The love of his life, his proudly proclaimed "destiny woman", the woman he loved and lost in less than a year; Lola has sent the raga and the dwarf to wipe his every memory of her.

As his memories flood back, short chapters shift between 1997 and 2001. Then, too, there was a book that wouldn't get started.Max recalls love at first sight, deepening as he and Lola discover a shared world of music and poetry and art. Lola Bessington, self-assured daughter of London aristocrats, half engaged to tall, handsome well-to-do Basil Meissen-Potts, is a bit resistant at first, but Max, convinced of his destiny, wins her.

But there are things she doesn't know about Max. He has a history of falling in love - and out again. "In all fairness he ought to have been wearing a sign that said, IT AIN'T NECESSARILY SO when he appeared in the Coliseum Shop in 1996 and said that Lola was his destiny woman." When he meets the brash and beautiful Lula Mae he succumbs, no, pursues temptation. His mind tries to warn him, Lola tries too, but Max wants what Max wants.

Then, having lost Lola, he's bereft. It's 1997 and suddenly his novel takes off with an artist named Moe who loses the world and acquires a dwarf named Apasmara. Max and Moe dialogue; Moe demanding to know where this dwarf came from, Max confused but sure it has something to do with Moe's as yet unknown actions. Moe wants the dwarf deleted but Max refuses. Returning to his memories, he mourns, but revels in them too. The delicious Lula Mae, the elegant Lola. Both lost. And now his own created character is breaking out of the form he has cast him in.

Once Max has lost Lola the narrative widens to include her separate life. Living in a fashionable London Buddhist retreat, she puts her well-honed mind to work, learning to compose a raga. It will take her years, but we have no doubt Lola will do it. Lola's formidable determination may yet be a match for Max's fecklessness.

Time, memory and reality become increasingly unmoored. The tone is playful and melancholy, humorous and ardent. It's full of musical and literary allusions and metaphysical conundrums. We sympathize with Max and hope he will find and win Lola, but why? He's a cad who only wants what he can't have. Can he change?

Hoban is a marvelous, imaginative and clever writer who makes a simple love story into a meditation on the nature of love, reality and memory, the creative process and spiritual wisdom. Or does he? While some readers will revel in the "emptiness is form, form is emptiness" mantra, others will begin to feel that form overwhelms substance. This reader did a bit of both. Still, it's a playful, charming and buoyant novel, beautifully written, and can be enjoyed on that level alone.

Gourmet Fluff
I read this novel largely on the basis of an enthusiastic review in the Washington Post, and it made perfect weekend get-away reading (although it was too much fun to spread out over the whole weekend; I finished it on the first day). It is neither as ambitious nor as accomplished as the Post review suggests, but it is a delightful and intelligent comic romance. ... Read more

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From a master storyteller comes a taut psychological thriller about a boy's harrowing dream world. "Trokeville offers a window into the jumble of emotions in an intellectual adolescent's tumultuous mind."--School Library Journal. ... Read more

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Good for ages 10-18
Wondeful.The book the trokeville way is funny suspenseful and realistic when he is outside in the real world. If you had noticed I called this paragraph good for ages 10-18. This is because they use mature words and swear. But other than that the trokeville way is a extrordinary book.

There's Moe Nagic left
When a young boy takes a bang to his head after getting into a fight, he meets a tramp, sitting on the road. The tramp, (Moe Nagic), sells a jigsaw puzzle to the boy. Moe explains how the puzzle can come alive, and how you can visit the land of Troke. Now it is up to Stevie, to visit the old brudge, and follow the path, that leads to Trokeville.

Trokeville is the bridge to Fremder's terrifying 'otherness'
With no US company willing to publish an adult book by Hoban, it has become increasingly difficult to follow the path of his creative wanderings.With each book he seems to proceed further, but as to thedestination of that motion, who can say?After Hoban's `The MedusaFrequency' it seems we have a long space of blackness before `Fremder'turns up, only published in the UK.But before `Fremder', he apparentlywrote the children's book 'Trokeville' which along with Robert O'Brien'sSilver Crown is probably one of the most disturbing books I have read inthe genre.Of course, Hoban admits that children need to be challenged,and he really doesn't pull any punches with Trokeville.In a sense, thisharkens back to `Mouse and his Child' which he did not write for children,but became marketed as a children's book.To me at least, `Trokeville'also reads like a book Hoban simply found in his head, and whichsubsequently was marketed for kids.People who do not understand Hoban(such as the review provided by Amazon that compares `Trokeville' to `ThePrincess Bride') will mistake `Trokeville' as simply a very dingy fantasywith a lot of humor that doesn't work, but a reading of anything Hoban haswritten since (and including) Riddley Walker will give firm evidence thatthis is not the case.Hoban is once again writing about consciousness andthe consciousness that lies outside of the realms of the limited consensusof reality.He is writing about fear, and the whole duality of beautyemerging out of fear that he described so wonderfully in the `MedusaFrequency'. I do not know if this is really a very good book for kids, yethere is this danger of underestimating children (or teens).I have giventhe book a four star rating because that is where it stands with me, thefeeling being one of an intermediate step between his serious books.Ifyou are a Hoban fan this is definitley worth a read, especially at thecheap domestic price.For those who don't know anything about Hoban, find`Mouse and his Child' if you can (for young readers--though I like it too)or any of his adult books which I prefer to `Trokeville'. ... Read more

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Lonely Sister Brute turns a stone into a doll to keep her company, then an ugly dog follows her home, and she has two things to love, but she cannot figure out why she still feels sad. Reprint. ... Read more

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Please, Please Reissue this book!
I used to read this book to my son and to my nieces. Unfortunately, I can no longer find it (sigh!) This was such a sweet story: Sister Brute meets a dog in the woods who wears hard boots, kicks her and begs to be loved! Over time, Both Sister Brute, her Family and the kicking dog learn a lesson about Love. I would love to buy a copy of this book, but $30 for one book is out of my league.

A book worth reissuing
Somehow I discovered this book in paperback when my (now) 30-year-old son was preschool age.I read the book to him, to his sister who is nine years younger, and to many children with whom I have worked in public school as a speech language pathologist.Finally I gave the well-worn book to my son because he is now a father. It's guaranteed to warm a child's heart.Sister Brute has no one to love until she gets an "ugly kicking dog" and a doll made from a stone. Then she discovers that there are other people to love.

A Classic!
Please bring this bizarre yet lovable tale back!I loved it as a kid, and know my kids would too.

Bring it Back!
Reprint this book!I remember it from childhood and would love to have copies for myself (my old copy is lost, naturally) and to give as gifts.Excellent story. ... Read more

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This collection includes four endearing favorites, Bedtime for Frances; A Baby Sister for Frances; Bread and Jam for Frances; and A Birthday for Frances. Children will cheer for Frances as she cleverly avoids her bedtime, stubbornly refuses to eat anything but bread and jam, and struggles not to eat the tempting, chocolatey birthday present she has just bought for her younger sister, Gloria. These reassuring and funny stories are just right for those amazing days of childhood!

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Listened to Again and Again and Again and Again
I can't tell you how many times we have listed to this CD in the three years we've owned it. (A is for apple pie, B is for Bear, C is for crocodile combing his hair...)

My 6 year-old daughter loves to go to bed listening to a story on her stereo. This is one of her favorites. Glynis Johns does a wonderful job reading the well-loved books and giving them life. The cadence and tone is perfect to convey the feeling of the Francis stories.

I'm not sure if we've actually ever heard the very last tracks since she is usually fast asleep by then!

We have plenty of other stories on disc. Some of them work well, others don't hold our attention. This one is a keeper.

Frances
The person reading the story does a great Frances, My daughter can listen to this over and over again.Great for long car rides

Best Children's follow along CD, EVER!!
My niece loves to listen to Frances chew her gum, and debate with her father, on this CD.

Generations of tradition
Our children enjoyed all the Frances stories, now our grandchildren like to listen to the same stories on CD. They listen to the stories at bedtime, the pace is slow and easy, and they are happy to listen to the same stories, over and over again .....................

not something I will use often
I use the Frances books in my classroom and the children enjoy the "read-aloud" versions that I have on audio tapes.I ordered this cd as a supplement, as I do not have all the books on tape.The children and I did not like this version and I probably will not use them in my classroom.The other version of the books (read-aloud) is much better. ... Read more

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A classic coming of age tale
Charlie The Tramp is a terrific story about a beaver (Charlie) who wants to pursue his boyhood dream of becoming a tramp.He says that tramps just tramp around all day, enjoy the good life, and sleep in fields with daisies(or in a barn if it rains).His parents are haltingly indulgent of hisdream, while his grandfather harrumphs around with "That's what it'slike these days... little beavers want to be tramps..." comments.He eventually "comes of age" one night as a trickling streamkeeps him awake and he spends the night building a dam.The next day ashis parents are looking for him they find the dam/pond.They wonder whobuilt it and comment that it looks like the sort of pond that Charlie'sfather would make... only he is certain that he didn't make it. Charlie wakes up and says that he made it and is heartily congratulated fora fine job of building a dam.Even grandfather admits "That's the waythings are these days... more and more tramps become beavers." There is some gender stereotyping (mother races home to make flapjacks forall) but other than that, it is a quality children's book.There is astrong family message and asserts that children should be allowed to chasetheir dreams.For if they were given the proper guidance in theirchildhood, they will make good choices and do the proper thing.It was oneof my favorites as a child and it is a shame that it is out of print. ... Read more

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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).

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I am still reading this classic to them.It was recommended by the text that our district "adopted." ... Read more

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Fascinating but all too brief Hoban analysis.
If Hoban fans want to learn about the author there are three ways to do it--the first being the web site, but even that will lead you to the books.The most informative and interesting book about Hoban is his own 'Momentunder the Moment' but this is unfortunately out of print.Through theNarrow Gate is your next best bet, but what most of the book focuses on isnot Hoban himself but Wilke's analysis of Hoban's books, laden in depthpsychology and the general Bollingen school of thought.The author'sconclusions seem right on the mark, but I can't imagine too many Hoban fanswho would find this sort of thing all that rewarding.The best thing hereis an interview by Wilke of Hoban, and it is one of the best reviews I haveread of him.I don't know if the cost is justifiable unless you mustsimply own any and everything related to Hoban.Clearly this was writtenfor academic purposes alone, and outside of whatever field Wilke is in(Jungian study of literature???), her points, no matter how true, did notseem to further my understanding of Hoban.Still, it was a fun read. ... Read more

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This edited volume reviews the long career of Russell Hoban, an American writer residing in England who writes for children and adults.The "Forty Years" in the title refers to the length of Hoban's career to date.Hoban's contribution specifically to children's literature is commemorated in this volume of essays by international scholars, ... Read more

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Big John Turkle, a turtle, finds his day very unsatisfactory until he manages to make off with boastful Grover Crow's newest treasure. ... Read more

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Lavinia Bat teaches her baby how to move and hunt in the spring night. ... Read more