A review by sean67
A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban
3.0
The fourth book in the Frances series.
I am still not sure why she is a badger because there seems to be a total; arbitrary choice, I do like the fact that Frances is sometimes a bit of a prat and sometimes a good kid, and she sings to herself and makes ridiculous statements.
'She is in other words a three dimensional character, unlike say how kids are written in the James Patterson books, where they are layered in treacle.
Anyway I digress another solid read from Hoban which should entertain the young g ones, it is a short book in terms of pages, but each page is quite wordy, I wonder if it would work better being twice as long in pages with less words on each page.
I am still not sure why she is a badger because there seems to be a total; arbitrary choice, I do like the fact that Frances is sometimes a bit of a prat and sometimes a good kid, and she sings to herself and makes ridiculous statements.
'She is in other words a three dimensional character, unlike say how kids are written in the James Patterson books, where they are layered in treacle.
Anyway I digress another solid read from Hoban which should entertain the young g ones, it is a short book in terms of pages, but each page is quite wordy, I wonder if it would work better being twice as long in pages with less words on each page.