Russell Hoban

Tom finds that he can beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen at more than games.

Roswell Clark wants a bat tattoo. His ideal bat image is on a bowl in the V&A Museum. There he encounters Sarah Varley, also compelled by the same bat. What does it mean? This novel combines much about art with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques and pornography.

Jim Frog feels a little low in the morning, but by evening he decides it hasn't been such a bad day after all.

The Empress of Zurm and others receive invitations to a battle from Zormla and his select squad of one-eyed teddy bears.

While delivering the news to the other field mice, Charlie Meadows, who loves dancing with his shadow in the moonlight, narrowly escapes being eaten by the owl.

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

Een fabeldier ontsnapt uit een 16e eeuws epos en gaat op zoek naar liefde in het 21e eeuwse San Francisco.

Arthur Crocodile cannot seem to learn table manners until his sister brings her new girlfriend to visit.

A small boy plays giant in his father's shoes, to the songs of his younger sister's drum.

When Megafright International flattens their beautiful mountain to put up a hi-tech plastic theme park, the O'Saurus family uses faith and lots of Monsta-Gloo to put things right.

"Russell Hoban has had a loyal following among parents and children for his popular books about Frances the badger."--BOOK JACKET. "A Russell Hoban Omnibus presents four of Hoban's novels: the haunting The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz; the popular Turtle Diary (which was made into a movie starting Glenda Jackson and Ben Kingsley); Pilgermann; and his newest work, Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, a Faustian comedy published here for the first time in the United States."--BOOK JACKET. "Russell Hoban has also excelled as a writer of short stories, essays, and poetry. Samples of his best work from The Moment under the Moment and The Last of the Wallendas and Other Poems are included in this volume."--BOOK JACKET. "Finally, for true Hoban aficionados, there is part of an unfinished sequel to The Mouse and His Child featuring the further adventures of Manny Rat."--BOOK JACKET.

Big John Turkle, a turtle, finds his day very unsatisfactory until he manages to make off with boastful Grover Crow's newest treasure.

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.

A man builds a new table sturdy enough for an elephant to dance on and works up to a restaurant with twenty dancing elephants.

The reader goes along on a patrol in an atomic submarine, observing the men at work, the submarine's interior, and a practice attack.

Both Ma Otter and her son, Emmet, hope to win the $50 talent show prize and surprise each other with a special Christmas present.

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.

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.