Russell Hoban
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1970
Language
English
Description
Frances and Thelma are friends -- most of the time. Thelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it's the last straw. Can Frances show her that it's better to lose a bargain than lose a friend?
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1960
Language
English
Description
It may be bedtime for Frances, but before Frances can sleep, she needs a glass of milk, a kiss from Father, one from Mother, her teddy bear, her doll, another kiss from Father, and another one from Mother. And then there are tigers and giants and ominous cracks in the ceiling to keep her up. Will Frances ever go to sleep?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a discarded popsicle stick that is picked up by a little girl who dreams about a magical horse that gallops with her through cities, jungles, and over an ice-pop mountain leading to a gold-filled pirate chest.
Author
Publisher
Summit
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
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Description
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.
13) Jim's lion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Jim Henson Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Kermit the Frog narrates this tale featuring lovable new Muppet characters and original music from Paul Williams. Struggling to make ends meet, Mrs. Otter and her son, Emmet, face yet another bleak Christmas until Emmet secretly decides to enter Frog Town Hollow's first annual talent contest on Christmas Eve. However, Emmet faces some hilarious and unexpectedly tough competition for the prize money.
Publisher
Italtoons
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
The Marzipan pig: Lost behind a sofa, the marzipan pig experiences feelings of great loneliness. So too does the mouse which eventually discovers and eats the pig thus beginning a chain of events involving a grandfather clock, an owl besotted with a taxi meter, a bee and another mouse which impersonates hibiscus flowers.
Jazztime tale: Set in 1919 Harlem, two girls, one black and one white, form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter and...