Arthur thinks his pen pal is more fun than his little sister.
Little sisters don''t do things like karate and wrestling -- or do
they? It takes a surprise letter to show Arthur that sometimes
there''s more to sisters -- and pen pals -- than meets the eye!
關於作者:
Lillian Hoban''s books for children have been working magic for
nearly thirty years. Her illustrations can help change an
unfamiliar setting-like a museum filled with dinosaurs and
whales-into a wondrous adventure, and her words and pictures
together can transform chimpanzees and badgers into very real
companions for the youngest reader.
Ms. Hoban was born and raised in Philadelphia. Among the first
books she illustrated were the ever-popular "Frances" books, and
several years later she wrote and illustrated Arthur''s Christmas
Cookies, thereby ushering in her beloved ''Arthur"
series.
In 1967 Ms. Hoban was asked to illustrate Will I Have a Friend? by
Miriam Cohen. It was the beginning of an enormously popular
collaboration that produced more that a dozen books about Jim,
Paul, Danny, Anna Maria, and the rest of the first-grade
classcharacters as familiar to children as their own
classmates.
Perhaps the key to the unfailing popularity of Ms. Hoban''s stories
and illustrations is that she''s long been a keen observer of
children, having had firsthand experience raising four of her
own.