Russell Hoban

Frances has trouble going to sleep because of frightening sounds and objects that may be going to get her.

When Rosie's popsicle stick turns into a horse named Stickerino, they have a lot of adventures. 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.

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...

Frances has trouble going to sleep because of frightening sounds and objects that may be going to get her.

Presents four tales featuring the irrepressible badger, Frances.