The Hobyahs

By Robert D. San Souci

Book Overview

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with an old man and woman and their five faithful dogs in a tiny house at the edge of a forest. Deep in the forest lived goblins called Hobyahs,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385309341
• ISBN13: 9780385309349
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
• Length: 29 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Fine retelling of an old story.

This is a wonderful story to tell the metaphors like "boldly as the wolves who sense the hunt is ending soon" add so much to the story. I never liked Jacobs version because of the maiming of Turpie. San souci has made wonderful addition of the dogs and he builds up the suspense from coming silently to their final bold attack. The Hobyahs are scary but not too scary and the dogs faithful. This version kept an audience of 700 spellbound last month and 6th graders last week.