Russell Hoban
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
OBD 1000 Books Before Kindergarten - YOUTH
OBD Feast on Books - YOUTH
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Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.
5) Turtle diary
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"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...
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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).
10) Ace Dragon Ltd
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John goes for a ride in the sky on Ace Dragon's back and finds him not so limited after all.
12) Riddley Walker
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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.
15) Jim's lion
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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.
16) Harvey's hideout
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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.