New Releases by Lillian Hoban

Welcome to First Grade! series.

Features Lillian Hoban, children''s author and illustrator in a lecture given at Nebraska Wesleyan University on Wednesday, February 11, 1982.

A young American girl living with her mother in Jerusalem wants to go home.

Arthur wants to make Christmas cookies for Mother and Father. His sister, Violet, lets him use her Bake-E-Z oven. Wilma and Norman come over to watch -- and talk, and fight and push! The dough falls on the floor, and, finally, when the cookies are done, there is something very wrong with them. "Nothing I make is any good," cries Arthur. But with a little help from his friends, Arthur comes up with an idea for Christmas surprises for everyone! Lillian Hoban''s hilarious story, which the New York Times called "funny and childlike," and her affectionate pictures of Arthur and his friends make Arthur''s Christmas Cookies a treat for children all the year round.

Although Arthur loses the Super Chimp Club contest, his pupil, sister Violet, wins the first grade reading competition and a prize for them both.

Members of the Brute family, who live on a diet of stick and stone stew, suddenly find their lives changed for the better.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ugly and mean, the Brute family lives up to its name until Baby Brute makes an important discovery.