The Sorely Trying Day [Hardcover]

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 asBread and Jam for Frances,A Little Sister for Frances, andThe Little Brute Family, bring alive in this cleverly fashioned and heartwarmingly illustrated tale of a house in uproar."Russell Hoban... a prolific author of children’s books” --The New York Times

“Leading the canon of anxiety-kid-lit for me are the books of Russell and Lillian Hoban…I find their books to be more sophisticated.” –The New York Times

"Russell Hoban is a writer whose genius is expressed with equal brilliance in books both for children and for adults,...Hoban has established himself as a writer with a rare understanding of childhood (and parental) psychology, sensitively and humorously portrayed in familiar family situations." --Alida Allison,Dictionary of Literary Biography

“A long-out-of-print classic from the authors of the beloved Frances books,The Sorely Trying Dayoffers a timely antidote to stress. Try reading this aloud to the family at the end of, well, a sorely trying day.”
--Los Angeles TimesRussell Hoban (b. 1925) is the author of more than seventy books for children and adults. He grew up in Pennsylvania with two sisters (one of whom, Tana Hoban, becamelóå