Russell Hoban

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 again or for the first time this masterpiece of 20th-century literature with new material by the author.--From publisher description.

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

Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set.

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

"Emmet Otter and his mother enter the local talent contest in the hopes of winning the cash prize and being able to buy each other a Christmas present."--