The big hand of the clock is at 12. The little hand is at 7

[sovay]

Why did I not know until after he died that Russell Hoban of Riddley Walker (1980) also wrote Bedtime for Frances (1960) and Emmett Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1971)? I read the latter as a very small child and the former in college; I never put the names together. I was prepared to miss a luminary of science fiction and now I'm grieving for a small pencil-drawn badger.

Comments

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I forgot to say that in our household, ice cream was frequently, though not universally referred to 'QPM' after France's attempt to spell it in, I think, A Birthday For Frances, which also had the memorable sequence about the Chompo bar.

Oh look! Someone came up with a recipe. :)

a recipe for a chompo bar

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Excellent!