Russell Hoban

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

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

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

"Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban's surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without home or family. Neaera is a successful writer of children's books, who, in her own estimation, "looks like the sort of spinster who doesn't keep cats and is...

Caldecott Medalist David Small lovingly shows us the heart of Russell Hoban's classic. The mouse and his child are wind-up toys forever joined at the hands. But when their mechanism breaks they are discarded, separated from the doll house where they lived and the toy elephant that the child calls "mother" (much to her chagrin).

"Emmet Otter and his mother enter the local talent contest in the hopes of winning the cash prize and being able to buy each other a Christmas present."-- Provided by publisher.

Harvey thinks his big sister is mean and rotten; she thinks he is stupid and no-good. As a result, they both spend some lonely hours refusing to play with each other.

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

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.

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