Russell Hoban

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

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

As her little sister Gloria's birthday approaches, Frances wavers between being generous--and being jealous.

John goes for a ride in the sky on Ace Dragon's back and finds him not so limited after all.

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...

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