Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 48 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2008-09-01


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Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever!

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Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: HarperFestival
Publication Date: 1995-10-30


Reviews :

    Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago.In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the gentle humor of its familiar going to bed ritual, Bedtime for Frances is at last available with the warmth of full color enriching Garth Williams’s original nuanced and touching art. ‘Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day.’—Kirkus Reviews (pointer).

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    It's bedtime for young Frances--an adorable and irrepressible little badger--and everyone is ready but her. At 7:00 p.m. Frances is wide awake and bursting with youthful excitement. She tries every delay tactic she can muster--from demanding extra hugs and kisses to volleying a series of urgent last-minute questions ("May I sleep with my teddy bear?" "May I have my door open?"). She's almost positive there are spiders, giants, and tigers in her room.

Any parent will quickly identify with this phenomenon--how the last minutes of the day suddenly become the most action-packed. Garth Williams's illustrations complement Russell Hoban's sweet story perfectly, capturing the endless energy and overactive imagination of Frances, and the waning patience of her exhausted parents. Bedtime for Frances is the perfect goodnight story to tell your wide-eyed children. And never fear, like Frances, they too will eventually, contentedly, drift off to sleep. (Ages 4 to 8)...

Authors: Russell Hoban.
Audio CD, pages
Publisher: HarperChildrensAudio
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
Edition: Unabridged

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This collection includes four endearing favorites, Bedtime for Frances; A Baby Sister for Frances; Bread and Jam for Frances; and A Birthday for Frances. Children will cheer for Frances as she cleverly avoids her bedtime, stubbornly refuses to eat anything but bread and jam, and struggles not to eat the tempting, chocolatey birthday present she has just bought for her younger sister, Gloria. These reassuring and funny stories are just right for those amazing days of childhood!

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Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 1976-04-28


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s her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous'and being jealous.‘[Frances] is every youngster who chafes at being the un-birthday child.

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Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 1976-04-28


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    The irrepressible Frances teaches Albert, the badger next door, about friendship. ‘Full of the humor and homely details of family life that make [the Frances stories] beloved by both children and adults.’ —H.

Children's Books of the Year 1969 (CSA)...

Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 1976-04-28
Edition: Pap/Cas

Reviews :

    When a baby sister arrives, Frances the badger finds a charming way to prove her own importance.‘A familiar family situation, treated with understanding and humor.’ —E.

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    One quiet evening, Frances the badger is sitting under the kitchen sink, singing a little song, "Here are the buckets and brushes and me, / Plinketty, plinketty, plinketty, plee." When she stops singing to listen for parental coos of approval, she hears nothing. Frances is sure it's all her new baby sister's fault. It's why she has no raisins for her cereal, and it's why her new dress isn't ready for her to wear to school. She thinks she may run away after dinner. And she does! She takes her carefully packed knapsack and settles in under the dining-room table.

As she sits sulking and eating cookies, her mother and father, fully aware of her presence, begin talking about how much they miss her, and how much they love her little songs, and how a family is everybody all together, not just a baby. Frances can't stand it anymore. She calls them from her imaginary telephone and tells them she'll be home soon. Russell Hoban and illustrator Lillian Hoban succeed again with a tender, comical, heartwarming story that will make any big brother or sister feel better about a new sibling in the house. For more adventures of this endearing, enduring badger family, don't miss Bedtime for Frances (with illustrations by Garth Williams); Bread and Jam for Frances; Best Friends for Frances; A Birthday for Frances; and A Bargain for Frances. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson...

Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Edition: Revised

Reviews :

    Frances and Thelma are friends -- most of the time

Thelma always seems to get Frances into trouble. When she tricks Frances into buying her tea set, it's the last straw. Can Frances show her that it's better to lose a bargain than lose a friend?

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Authors: Russell Hoban.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Publisher: Harper & Row
Publication Date: 1960
Edition: Early Reprint

Reviews :

    First edition of a famous children's book about Frances, a young and clever badger who tries ways to delay bedtime. Very well illustrated. Easy reading....

Authors: Russell Hoban.
Hardcover, pages
Publisher: ATLAS EDITIONS
Publication Date:

Authors: Russell Hoban.
Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: Rayo
Publication Date: 1996-02-29


Reviews :

    Famed for her many adventures, Frances made her debut with this title over thirty years ago.In this first Frances book, the little badger adroitly delays her bedtime with requests for kisses and milk, and concerns over tigers and giants and things going bump in the night. Long a favorite for the gentle humor of its familiar going to bed ritual, Bedtime for Frances is at last available with the warmth of full color enriching Garth Williams’s original nuanced and touching art. ‘Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story in many a day.’—Kirkus Reviews (pointer).

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