| The Sorely Trying Day Contributor(s): Hoban, Russell (Author), Hoban, Lillian (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1590173430 ISBN-13: 9781590173435 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2010 Annotation: Father has had a sorely trying day, but what he finds when he comes home isn't going to make it any better. The cat is on top of the grandfather clock, and the dog is barking and trying to get at her, and all the children are "striking each other and speaking in unpleasantly harsh voices." Thus begins Russell and Lillian Hoban's wonderfully comic and deliciously quaint story of what lengths kids and adults will go to in order to pass the buck, before everyone owns up to having a part in the general mess and in the end things are fine. Unless, that is, it all begins again. . . . "The Sorely Trying Day "is a classic picture book in which the beloved authors of "Bread and Jam for Frances "once again prove their power to both delight and instruct. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Values & Virtues - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009031681 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 7.74" W x 9.32" (0.72 lbs) 48 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Father has had a long hard day at work. A sorely trying day indeed. He wants to sit down and put his feet up and rest. But what does he find when he arrives home? Commotion, consternation, confusion, chaos rule How to get to the bottom of it? How to restore some semblance of proper order? The investigation, reluctantly begun, expands in widening circles to take in the whole family, as finger points to pointing finger. Perhaps everyone is to blame? Perhaps to set things straight everyone just needs to sit down, say sorry, and start over again? That family life is just that simple and never quite that simple is the message Russell and Lillian Hoban, the creators of such classics as Bread and Jam for Frances, A Little Sister for Frances, and The Little Brute Family, bring alive in this cleverly fashioned and heartwarmingly illustrated tale of a house in uproar. |