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Children’s, Teenage & Educational

HORRIBLE HARRIET'S INHERITANCE

Leigh Hobbs

Horrible Harriet is back – to claim her inheritance, and to fill in the gaps in her impressive family tree along the way. These include queens, warriors and yes, a vampire, too…

Horrible Harriet has appeared in two picture books: Horrible Harriet and Hooray for Horrible Harriet, with sales across both titles of almost 14,000 in hardback and just over 7500 in paperback. And you might remember that it was indeed Horrible Harriet who originally invented Mr Chicken, whose fame has almost outstripped her own… So it’s high time for Horrible Harriet to have another book all of her own. Bursting with hilarious black-and-white line drawings and amusing captions, this friendly story in the style of 'Clarice Bean' and 'The Wimpy Kid' is a great, fun read. Leigh Hobbs is a painter, sculptor and creator of children’s books. He is probably best known for the children’s books he writes and illustrates featuring his characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Mr Badger, Mr Chicken and the Freaks in 4F. He has won almost every children’s choice award in Australia for his

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Book Published 2012-07-01 by Allen&Unwin

Comments

Hobbs has a delightfully quirky sense of the ridiculous…his vibrant illustrations, full of movement and colour, complement this wacky story wonderfully well.

There's something universally appealing about all Hobbs' creations. It's remarkable how much emotional range he conveys in a few brush strokes. In the case of Horrible Harriet, Hobbs can take a bossy, alienating, frightening character and make her completely irresistible.

If Roald Dahl hadn't had Quentin Blake to illustrate his books, he'd have loved Leigh Hobbs. The work of an utterly original artist whose boundless generosity is matched by a thumping talent for talking directly to kids