Russell Hoban

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship.

Two discarded toy mice survive perilous adventures in a hostile world before finding security and happiness with old friends and new.

Members of the Brute family, who live on a diet of stick and stone stew, suddenly find their lives changed for the better.

Frances, a spirited young badger, 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 bought for her younger sister.

Harry meets a rag-and-bone man one hot summer afternoon and follows him through the rain door for a fantastic adventure with rain, thunder, and lightning.

Jim Hedgehog is converted to a healthy diet and lifestyle by confronting a frightening image of his future self in his favorite film the Revolting Blob.

A crocodile family tries to conserve energy at home.