Arthur's gone Camping. Violet's camping out too, but herfriends don't want Arthur around. So Arthur decidesto collect slimythings he knows Violet wouldn't like. But he doesn't count onslippery rocks and swooping bats, or hunger pangs. Then he smellshot dogs roasting over a warm fire...
Lillian Hoban (May 18, 1925 – July 17, 1998) was a children'sliterature author and artist.
The youngest of three children, Hoban was born Lillian Abermanin Philadelphia on May 18, 1925. She attended the PhiladelphiaMuseum School of Art, studied dance for ten years and danced withthe Martha Graham troupe, taught Modern Dance and dancedprofessionally in the 1950s.
Hoban learned to draw still life and began to write her ownstories only after having four children, Phoebe, Brom, Esme andJulia. She based her tales on their experiences.
Her "I-Can-Read" books about Arthur the chimpanzee and hislittle sister Violet, and the Frances the Badger books (illustratedby Hoban but written by her then-husband Russell) continue to beextremely popular among children as time goes by, widely consideredto be classics. Charlie the Tramp, about a wayward young beaver andhis family, is now unfortunately out of print. She also illustratedthe Riverside Kids series including Russell Rides Again, Elisa InThe Middle, Superduper Teddy, and Busybody Nora. The last RiversideKids book she illustrated is Ever-Clever Elisa.
Lillian Hoban died in 1998.
