Russell Hoban

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

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

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

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

Ugly and mean, the Brute family lives up to its name until Baby Brute makes an important discovery.

Los protagonistas de esta novela de amor son una mujer perseguida por la mala suerte y un hombre que cree en las sincronicidades. Estamos en Londres, el nuevo siglo acaba de comenzar. Christabel Alderton, cantante de una banda de rock gótico, tiene cincuenta y cuatro años, está soltera y desde muy joven sufre premoniciones que a veces se cumplen, pero no siempre. Elias Newman, de sesenta y dos, también está soltero, es médico, disfruta mucho...

When Father comes home at the end of a sorely trying day, he finds all the family fighting and scolding after a sequence of events for which no one is willing to take the blame.

"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...

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.