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Russell Hoban (1925–2011)

Auteur de Bread and Jam for Frances

109+ oeuvres 25,750 utilisateurs 446 critiques 59 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Russell Hoban was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1925. He attended art school in Philadelphia and during World War II, he served in the Army and earned a Bronze Star. He taught art in New York and Connecticut, and also worked as an advertising copywriter and a freelance illustrator afficher plus before beginning his career as a writer. He began publishing children's books in the late 1950s, including What Does It Do and How Does It Work?, Bedtime for Frances and the six other books featuring Frances, The Story of Hester Mouse Who Became a Writer, What Happened When Jack and Daisy Tried to Fool the Tooth Fairies, and The Mouse and His Child, which was adapted as an animated film in 1977. In 1973, he published his first adult novel, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz. His other books for adults include Turtle Diary, Pilgermann, and Ridley Walker. He received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and the Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award for Ridley Walker. He died on December 13 at the age of 86. In 2015 he made the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist for his title Jim's Lion wth illlustrator Alexis Deacon. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.

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Œuvres de Russell Hoban

Bread and Jam for Frances (1964) 3,687 exemplaires
A Bargain for Frances (1970) 3,504 exemplaires
Bedtime for Frances (1960) — Auteur — 3,164 exemplaires
Best Friends for Frances (1969) 2,035 exemplaires
A Baby Sister for Frances (1964) 1,741 exemplaires
A Birthday for Frances (1968) 1,474 exemplaires
Riddley Walker: Expanded Edition (1998) — Auteur — 1,343 exemplaires
Enig Marcheur (1980) — Auteur — 1,334 exemplaires
The Mouse and His Child (1967) 1,050 exemplaires
Turtle Diary (1975) 613 exemplaires
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas (1971) — Auteur — 391 exemplaires
The Mole Family's Christmas (1969) 372 exemplaires
Pilgermann (1983) 343 exemplaires
The Medusa Frequency (1987) 332 exemplaires
Kleinzeit (1974) 302 exemplaires
The Little Brute Family (1656) 181 exemplaires
Tom Batifole (1974) 180 exemplaires
Harvey's Hideout (1969) — Auteur — 176 exemplaires
Amaryllis Night and Day (2001) 175 exemplaires
The Bat Tattoo (2002) 144 exemplaires
Linger Awhile (2006) 138 exemplaires
Fremder (1996) 138 exemplaires
Egg Thoughts and Other Frances Songs (1972) 136 exemplaires
Angelica's Grotto (1999) 134 exemplaires
Charlie the Tramp (1966) 127 exemplaires
Elle s'appelait Lola (2003) 116 exemplaires
Monsters (1989) 114 exemplaires
Dinner at Alberta's (1974) 89 exemplaires
Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (1998) 84 exemplaires
Soonchild (2012) 82 exemplaires
The Marzipan Pig (1986) 82 exemplaires
Jim's Lion (2001) — Auteur — 77 exemplaires
The Sea-Thing Child (1972) 76 exemplaires
Rosie's Magic Horse (2012) 74 exemplaires
Come Dance With Me (2005) 72 exemplaires
Nothing to Do (1964) 70 exemplaires
Tom Bricole (1975) 65 exemplaires
Angelica Lost and Found (2010) 59 exemplaires
My Tango with Barbara Strozzi (2007) 58 exemplaires
Trouble on Thunder Mountain (1999) 56 exemplaires
The Moment Under the Moment (1992) 55 exemplaires
The Trokeville Way (1996) 54 exemplaires
The Twenty-Elephant Restaurant (1978) 52 exemplaires
Tom and the Two Handles (1965) 51 exemplaires
Dragon et Cie (1980) 45 exemplaires
A Russell Hoban Omnibus (1999) 42 exemplaires
La Corona and the Tin Frog (1821) 39 exemplaires
The Frances Collection (2008) 38 exemplaires
The Rain Door (1986) 35 exemplaires
The Stone Doll of Sister Brute (1968) 30 exemplaires
Arthur's New Power (1771) 29 exemplaires
The Pedalling Man (1968) 24 exemplaires
The Great Gumdrop Robbery (1981) 18 exemplaires
Jim Frog (1983) 17 exemplaires
The Dancing Tigers (1979) 14 exemplaires
Lavinia Bat (1984) 13 exemplaires
Ten What? (1973) 13 exemplaires
The Flight of Bembel Rudzuk (1982) 12 exemplaires
Big John Turkle (Ponders Series) (1983) 12 exemplaires
Herman the Loser (1961) 11 exemplaires
Charlie Meadows (Ponders Series) (1984) 11 exemplaires
Letitia Rabbit's String Song (1973) 10 exemplaires
Ponders (1988) 9 exemplaires
The roar of the crowd; conversations with an ex-big-leaguer (1964) — Illustrateur — 9 exemplaires
Flat Cat (1980) 8 exemplaires
They Came from Aargh! (1981) 8 exemplaires
The Serpent Tower (1981) 7 exemplaires
Save my place, (1967) 6 exemplaires
Ugly Bird (1969) 5 exemplaires
I Can Read! Adventures of Frances (2012) 5 exemplaires
The Song in My Drum (1962) 5 exemplaires
Court of Winged Serpent (1994) 4 exemplaires
Henry and the Monstrous Din (1966) 3 exemplaires
Some snow said hello (1963) 3 exemplaires
Goodnight (1969) 3 exemplaires
The Second Mrs Kong 2 exemplaires
Jim Glotón (1992) 2 exemplaires
London men and English men, (1962) 2 exemplaires
Frances (2021) 2 exemplaires
Monster Film (1995) 2 exemplaires
Dark Oliver 1 exemplaire
Gimmi e la Torre solitaria (1995) 1 exemplaire
Leon boaz-jachin (1989) 1 exemplaire
FANCY THAT! (2013) 1 exemplaire
Bernard Le Clochard 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Household Tales {Crane} (1963) — Introduction, quelques éditions769 exemplaires
The Family Read-Aloud Christmas Treasury (1989) — Contributeur — 273 exemplaires
Granta 28: Birthday: The Anniversary Issue (1989) — Contributeur — 150 exemplaires
Granta 42: Krauts! (1992) — Contributeur — 130 exemplaires
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas [1977 TV movie] (1996) — Original story — 104 exemplaires
Granta 10: Travel Writing (1984) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
Granta 8: Dirty Realism (1983) — Contributeur — 72 exemplaires
Granta 13: After the Revolution (1984) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind (1982) — Contributeur, quelques éditions44 exemplaires
Granta 9: John Berger, Boris (1983) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Granta 3: The End of the English Novel (1980) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Scary! 2: More Stories That Will Make You Scream (2001) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
The Wizard's Den: Spellbinding Stories of Magic & Magicians (2001) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
Puffin Annual: No. 1 (Puffin Books) (1974) — Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
The Thorny Paradise: Writers on Writing for Children (1975) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds (2011) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, April 1975 (1975) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 11, July 1976 (1976) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8, April 1976 (1976) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 1, September 1976 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, January 1979 (1979) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Turtle Diary [1985 film] — Original story — 1 exemplaire
The Marizipan Pig [1990 TV episode] — Original book — 1 exemplaire
Road Stories: New Writing Inspired by Exhibition Road (2012) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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‘Two minds full of turtle thoughts’

Quirky middle-aged single introverts ✅ mild existential introspection ✅ environmentally conscious anti-establishment animal rescue ✅ Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban couldn’t fail in seducing me with it’s heartwarming tale. The two said introverts coincidentally (due to the fact they don’t know each other) decide at the same time to do something about the two giant sea turtles at their local zoo which are kept cramped in a tiny tank. The turtles serve as the fulcrum to the lives of Neaera H. a scatty children’s author and new owner of a stolid water beetle and William G. a hard-up divorcee who has lost everything to his ex-wife, but this isn’t a particularly sentimental or predictable tale. It is rather an examination on middle age, loneliness, authenticity and self awareness.

The second role of the turtles is a metaphorical one: they are a symbol of being true to oneself, of concentrating on what is important in your life and accepting who you are. I have collected a lot of Hoban’s works after I read a review drawing comparisons between him and #kurtvonnegut. After my first venture I wouldn’t particularly agree with this, however there is no doubt he was a talented writer and I’m looking forward to the ten or so others of his books I’ve bought, happy in the knowledge he’s good and my unrestrained purchasing seems like it won’t end up being foolish!
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Dzaowan | 18 autres critiques | Feb 15, 2024 |
A cute and humorous look at sibling rivalry and bickering. Harvey Muskrat and his older sister, Mildred, try to one-up each other with the exciting things they are doing this summer, like a party or secret club, to which the other isn't invited.

I like the minimal but amusing impact of the parents on a story that is truly about the kids working things out for themselves.
 
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villemezbrown | 4 autres critiques | Dec 25, 2023 |
The most exciting thing about this slim novel was figuring out it was written by the author of one of my boys' beloved childrens books, [Bread and Jam for Frances].

Other than that, it was sort of boring. The idea is kind of clever. Two strangers meet because they are both interested in freeing the giant sea turtles that they like to visit at the zoo. But the execution of the novel as a whole left a bit to be desired. There were some clever lines, but this book didn't grab me.
 
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japaul22 | 18 autres critiques | Dec 20, 2023 |
#1225 in our old book database. Rated: Indifferent.

This book arrived in our library by way of my wife's childhood, so I have no sentimental attachment to it, but I do like the idea of near-sighted moles becoming fixated on seeing stars and deciding to take advantage of this newfangled present delivery system they've heard about run by a fat man in a red suit. I do like the mouse's amusing description of Christmas traditions, and Delver's haggling in his letter to Santa. It's a little off-putting that the crux of the story depends on a predator not following his instincts when being presented with easy prey, but as my wife points out, he was probably overcome by the Christmas spirit. So it works.… (plus d'informations)
 
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villemezbrown | 5 autres critiques | Dec 9, 2023 |

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