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Faber And FaberPublication date
30th August 2005ISBN
9780571202225Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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The Mouse And His Child
Russell Hoban
Part of the 'Faber Children's Classics S.' Series
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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 dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own.
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The Mouse And His Child by Russell HobanSo 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 dustbin and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a dangerous quest for a family and a place of their own.
Reviews
'Brilliantly plotted... and a spellbinder... it has a style that glows and crackles.' Spectator
'Hugely funny, provocative, pathetic, and heroic' Times Literary Supplement
'Like all the best children's books it is a book for anyone... a classic.' New Statesman
About The Author
A highly respected author of fiction, both for adults and children, Russell Hoban was born in Pennsylvania, USA. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Ukraine; his father was the advertising manager of a Jewish newspaper as well as a drama guild director. Russell was thus exposed to the arts early on, and became interested in writing at an early age, winning prizes for his stories and poems during his school years.
Russell served in the US Infantry during WWII. For a time he taught art in New York and Connecticut. He then worked as a freelance illustrator and an advertising copywriter. He began publishing children's books in 1958. He eventually published more than fifty. His picture book The Sea-Thing Child, illustrated by Patrick Benson, was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Russell passed away at the age of 86 in 2011.
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