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Monsters by Russell Hoban
19.00 NZD
Category: Nostalgic Picture Books
This title is brilliant and hilarious, full of monsters and disbelieving grown-ups - and back in print at last. John likes to draw monsters. Lots of them. Red monsters, yellow monsters, scaly monsters, furry monsters, even invisible monsters. Nothing but monsters! His mum and dad are beginning to worry. ...Show more
Pan Y Mermelada Para Francisca (Bread & Jam for Frances/Spanish) by Russell Hoban
24.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books: Languages
Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.
Rosie's Magic Horse by Russell Hoban
18.00 NZD
Category: Sophisticated Picture Books
This is a story that could have come only from the imagination of Russell Hoban, brought vividly to life by the picture-book supremo 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 ca ...Show more
The Little Brute Family by Russell Hoban
22.00 NZD
Category: Nostalgic Picture Books | Series: Sunburst Books
They eat sand and gravel for breakfast and a stew of sticks and stones for dinner. No one says "please" or "thank you." Instead, they kick and yell and punch and shove. Then one day everything changes, when Baby Brute happens upon "a little wandering lost good feeling in a field of daisies." When he bri ...Show more
The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban
19.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
"There is," said the marzipan pig, "such sweetness in me!"From the inimitable team of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind Captain Najork and The Twenty Elephant Restaurant, comes an enchanting story of a little pig made of marzipan. Fallen behind the sofa, nobody hears the lost marzipan pig ...Show more
The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
22.00 NZD
Category: Classics
'What are we, Papa?' the toy mouse child asked his father. 'I don't know,' the father answered. 'We must wait and see.' So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clockwork rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away, then rescued from a du ...Show more
The Rain Door by Russell Hoban
19.00 NZD
Category: Nostalgic Picture Books
This is a young boy's fantastic and fantastical trip of discovery beyond the real world...with a horn that goes GAHOOGA! One hot summer Thursday, Harry meets the rag-and-bone man and his horse, and follows them through the rain door - to a whole other world behind the weather. When Harry hears a lion ro ...Show more