Russell Hoban

Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship.

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

Two discarded toy mice survive perilous adventures in a hostile world before finding security and happiness with old friends and new.

Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. 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 this...

Harvey thinks his big sister, Mildred, is mean and rotten and she thinks he is stupid and no-good, so they both spend some lonely hours refusing to play together.

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

A young boy who is afraid of the operation that can help him get well learns to overcome his fear with the help of a caring nurse.

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

Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set.

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