Russell Hoban

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

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

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...

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

"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."--

Twenty-two poems reflect Frances' observations on the events in her life.

John goes for a ride in the sky on Ace Dragon's back and finds him not so limited after all.

A little boy loses all the fights he has with his best friend until his father gives him some good advice.

John's obsession with drawing monsters takes him to a doctor, where a startling discovery is made about the degree of reality of John's drawings.