Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781567923223
Tom likes fooling around and is rather good at it, much to the annoyance of his Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong. So one day this fearsome lady decides to teach Tom a lesson and summons Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen to play womble, muck and sneedball. Can it possibly end well for all concerned?
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Adventure games
ISBN : 9781406349528
A classic tale of the triumph of fooling-around fun over humourless no-nonsense adult disapproval! Tom loves to fool around. He fools around with dropping things from bridges into rivers and he fools around with barrels in alleys. He fools around so much that his maiden aunt, Miss Fidget Wonkham-Strong (who wears an iron hat and takes no nonsense from anyone), sends for Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen to teach Tom a lesson. Captain Najork, says Aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong, is seven feet tall, with eyes like fire and a voice like thunder. He teaches fooling-around boys the lesson they so badly need, and it is not one that they soon forget. Captain Najork lays down a challenge: they will play womble, muck and speedball - in that order. And it turns out not to be Tom who gets taught a lesson after all!
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781567923230
Captain Najork has never quite got over the time that Tom beat him and his hired sportsmen at womble, muck and sneedball, so when he sees Tom hurtle past his window in a two-seater jam powered frog, he sets off in hot pursuit.
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,8 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Boys
ISBN :
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN : 9781856817349
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408832240
‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780330302616
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1681370034
Who but Russell Hoban could weave a tale of life’s pleasures and pain around a candy pig? And who but Quentin Blake could make the most poignant of stories so lighthearted and delightful? In this episodic picture book by an inimitable author-illustrator duo, a fantastic chain of events is triggered by the unacknowledged fall of a marzipan pig behind the sofa. We meet in quick succession a heartsick mouse, a lonely grandfather clock, an owl in love with a taxi meter, a worker bee, a fading hibiscus flower, a mouse who greets the dawn dancing, and finally a boy who guesses at the true relations between things. Appealing to the unsentimental yet sensitive nature of children, The Marzipan Pig is exquisitely attuned to the bittersweet wonder of life and to the sentience of all beings.
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : Walker
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Animals, Mythical
ISBN : 9781406339826
A story that could only have come from the imagination of Russell Hoban! Brought vividly to life by picture book great, Quentin Blake.This story begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone, it lies discarded and lonely ... until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it carefully in her cigar box, full of other sticks. "Without our ice-lollies we are nothing," says an old stick. But new stick wants to BE something and into the minds of all the old sticks, he plants dreams ... maybe they can be something, too. What about Rosie and her dreams that night? She dreams of helping her parents pay the bills. And so, at the stroke of midnight, magic and dreams collide and a HORSE gallops out of the cigar box! His name is Stickerino. "Where to?" he asks Rosie. "Anywhere with treasure!" she answers and hops on its back. Then begins an adventure like no other ... ice-lolly mountains by the sea, caskets of gold, and pirates foiled by a stickling ice-cream van...
