Summary
Frances loves bread and jam more than any other food. In fact, that is all she eats! Soft-boiled eggs, chicken salad sandwiches and veal cutlets are no match for Frances' favorite meal. Unless Mother can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever!
For the first time ever, this classic story is available in I Can Read format! With gently abridged text and beautiful, full-color art, this edition of Bread and Jam for Frances will introduce a new generation of beginning readers to Russell Hoban's lovable, irrepressible badger.
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 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)