Frances is generally a welter of conflicting emotions, inclined to burst into tears just when she seems to be getting her way. Most of the stories revolve around Frances (no surprises here) learning a lesson of some sort: say, that there are other enjoyable foods in the world besides bread and jam, or that if it's your little sister Gloria's birthday, it can be more satisfying to actually give her the Chompo bar you bought as a present than to eat it yourself. Illustrated by Lillian Hoban, they are primarily concerned with the experiences of a precocious and high-spirited badger puella by the name of Frances.

With the possible exception of The Mouse and His Child, the Frances series are the best-known of Mr. Frances, Egg Thoughts and Other Frances Songs He also wrote and illustrated seven books on his own, including Baby Farm Animals (Little Golden Books) and The Rabbits' Wedding (HarperCollins).Russell Hoban's Frances books Back to The Head of Orpheus: a Russell Hoban Reference Page (home). He collaborated with Margaret Wise Brown on her Little Golden Books titles Home for a Bunny and Little Fur Family, among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry collections published by Greenwillow: Ride a Purple Pelican and Beneath a Blue Umbrella. He created the character and pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban (HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also illustrated George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square and its sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). Williams worked as a portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous career illustrating some of the best known children's books. He founded an art school near London and served with the British Red Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E.

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