Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture: rebel, change agent, and artist. Read this...

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

Frances feels rejected when her baby sister is born, but her parents reassure her with love.

Jealous of her sister's birthday, Frances becomes mean and selfish, until rare generosity and birthday spirit move her to reluctantly give her coveted gift.

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

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

The squidgerino squelcher, created by Bembel Rudzuk, the wizard, annoys the princess.

The marzipan pig eaten by a mouse starts a chain of events involving the feelings of the mouse, a grandfather clock, an owl, a bee, a flower, and another mouse who in her turn discovers another marzipan pig to eat.

A toddler outwits his two older brothers as he successfully steals and consumes the gum drops they so desire.