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Old Tom's Guide to Being Good

Old Tom's Guide to Being Good( )
Produced by: Story Box Library,
Author: Hobbs, Leigh
Illustrator: Hobbs, Leigh
Performed by: Brough, Alan
ISBN:978-1-922570-06-2
Publication Date:Sep 2016
Publisher:Story Box Library
Book Format:Online resource
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Book Description:

Old Tom's owner, Angela Throgmorton, has been invited to tea. Not just any tea: tea with the queen! Laugh out loud along with storyteller Alan Brough as we join loveable rogue Old Tom on his adventure to meet the Queen. Old Tom does try to be good... but his outrageously bad behaviour soon begins to cause mayhem at the royal palace.Children and adults alike will love Leigh Hobbs' hilariously entertaining illustrations, impossibly funny character names and Alan's wonderfully wicked...
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Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Author Biography
Hobbs, Leigh (Produced by)
Leigh Hobbs was born on April 18, 1953 in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia. After graduating from art school in 1973, he worked as an artist at Sydney's Luna Amusement Park. He created two large three-dimensional characters called Larry and Lizzy Luna, which now reside at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum. He was a secondary school art teacher from 1978 to 2002. He was a freelance contributing cartoonist for Melbourne's, The Age newspaper, from 1985 to 2010.

He is the author and illustrator of numerous humorous children's books featuring his characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig, Mr. Badger, and Mr. Chicken. From 1998 - 2002, an animated cartoon TV series based on his Old Tom books was broadcast in Australia on ABC TV. He has been chosen as the Australian Children's Laureate for 2016-2017.

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