Arthur's Birthday Party (An I Can Read Book) - Hardcover

Hoban, Lillian

3.44

64 ratings by Goodreads

9780060277987: Arthur's Birthday Party (An I Can Read Book)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006027798X ISBN 13: 9780060277987

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1999

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Arthur the chimpanzee is so sure that he will win the prize for the best all-around gymnast at his gymnastics birthday party that he doesn't bother to practice. By the author of Arthur's Loose Tooth.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover:

Happy birthday, Arthur!

Arthur is having a gymnastics party for his birthday, with prizes for balancing, tumbling, and rope climbing. Arthur is sure that he will win the prize for best all-around gymnast. But his little sister, Violet, and her friend Wilma have been practicing -- and they may have a surprise in store. . . .

About the Author:

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.

Lillian Hoban lives in Connecticut.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.