Arthur's prize reader

Although Arthur loses the Super Chimp Club contest, his pupil, sister Violet, wins the first grade reading competition and a prize for them both.

Main Author:	Hoban, Lillian
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Harper & Row, 1984, c1978.
Series:	I can read book
Subjects:	Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction. Reading > Juvenile fiction. Chimpanzees > Juvenile fiction.

Summary:	Although Arthur loses the Super Chimp Club contest, his pupil, sister Violet, wins the first grade reading competition and a prize for them both.
Item Description:	A Harper Trophy book.
Physical Description:	63 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0064440494
Author Notes:	Lillian Hoban was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 18, 1925. She attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, studied dance with Martha Graham, and taught modern dance in New York and Connecticut. She also danced professionally in the 1950's. During her lifetime, she illustrated or wrote more than 100 children's books. Her first publication was a book she illustrated, Herman the Loser, written by her husband Russell Hoban, and published in 1961. She illustrated several of his books including London Men and English Men, Charlie the Tramp, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, and books about a badger named Frances such as A Baby Sister for Frances. After the couple divorced in 1975, she began writing and illustrating I-Can- Read-Books including Joe and Betsy the Dinosaur, Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving, and a series about Arthur the Chimpanzee and his little sister Violet. She died from heart failure on July 17, 1998 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography)