Bibliography
The following books were written and illustrated by Leigh Hobbs:
- Old Tom (1994)
- Old Tom at the Beach (1995)
- Old Tom goes To Mars (1996)
- Old Tom’s Guide to Being Good (1998)
- Horrible Harriet (2001)
- Old Tom’s Holiday (2002)
- Old Tom Man of Mystery (2003)
- Fiona The Pig (2004)
- Hooray For Horrible Harriet (2005)
- 4F For Freaks (2006)
- Fiona The Pig’s Big Day (2006)
- Freaks Ahoy (2007)
- Old Tom’s Big Book of Beauty (2007)
- A Friend For Old Tom (2008)
- Mr Chicken Goes To Paris (2009)
- Mr Badger and The Big Surprise (2010)
- Mr Badger and The Missing Ape (2010)
- Mr Badger and The Difficult Duchess (2011)
- Mr Badger and The Magic Mirror (2011)
- Horrible Harriet’s Inheritance (2012)
Leigh Hobbs’s children's books are often described as working on a number of levels and could be seen as gently subversive. For example, Hobbs's most popular creation, Old Tom, is a grotesque one eyed cat, but the word cat is never used in the books. Old Tom's 'owner' a prim matron like character called Angela Throgmorton thinks of Old Tom as her 'son' and the stories revolve around her efforts to socialise this creature who is in fact like a seven year old boy trying to break free of a mothers constraints.
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