Russell Hoban was the author of A Bargain for Frances, A Baby
Sister for Frances, Best Friends for Frances, A Birthday for
Frances, and Bread and Jam for Frances, all illustrated by Lillian
Hoban. He also wrote Bedtime for Frances, illustrated by Garth
Williams.
Garth Williams is the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred
books for children, including the beloved Stuart Little by E. B.
White, Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban, and the Little House
series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. He
founded an art school near London and served with the British Red
Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. Williams worked as a
portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing
his first book Stuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous
career illustrating some of the best known children's books.
In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also
illustrated George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square and its
sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). He created the character and
pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban
(HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by
Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). He collaborated with Margaret Wise
Brown on her Little Golden Books titles Home for a Bunny and Little
Fur Family, among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry
collections published by Greenwillow: Ride a Purple Pelican and
Beneath a Blue Umbrella. He also wrote and illustrated seven books
on his own, including Baby Farm Animals (Little Golden Books) and
The Rabbits' Wedding (HarperCollins).
"An enchanting picture book with winsome illustrations and a text
in which there is humor and a real sympathy for the maneuvering of
the reluctantly retiring young."--" Bulletin of the Center for
Children's Books""Anyone who has ever put a little one to bed will
find this delightfully familiar, and the children themselves will
enjoy the gentle humor and coziness of the story."--" School
Library Journal""Here is the coziest, most beguiling bedtime story
in many a day."--" The Kirkus Reviews"
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