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.

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

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

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

Emmet and Ma Otter enter a talent contest with the hopes of winning the cash prize just in time for Christmas, and learn that family, not money, is the greatest Christmas gift of all. Includes: sing-along, bloopers, lost song, and more.