Teachers Notes Select a Book with notes All Fall Down Audrey of the Outback Big and Small Big Book of Alphabet and Numbers Farm Flight of the Falcon How Many Peas in a Pod? Kiss, Kiss! Little Blue Little Humpty Little Lucie's Diary Lizzie Nonsense Lucy Goosey Mal the Mischievous Mermaid Mango Makes Music Molly and Her Dad Old Tom's Holiday Old Tom: Man Of Mystery Run, Hare, Run! This Dog Bruce Time for Bed, Isobel Too Tight, Benito! Water Witcher Where in the World   School Resources Author Profiles   Leigh Hobbs Born in Melbourne in 1953, artist Leigh Hobbs has worked across a broad range of media, including painting, ceramics and sculpture. Several of his pieces are held in Australian museums and galleries, including the State Gallery of Victoria, the State Library of Victoria and Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. Leigh completed a diploma in art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in the early seventies, and has worked in various creative fields since then. His early career included a stint at Sydney’s Luna Park as part of a team of artists restoring the 1935 landmark, he has illustrated for newspapers, and since 1977 he has taught art in schools. However, Leigh is best known as an illustrator of children’s books, including the Old Tom series of junior novels, Old Tom’s Holiday (shortlisted for the 2003 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Picture Book of the Year award), Horrible Harriet (shortlisted for the 2002 CBCA Picture Book of the Year award) and, most recently, Old Tom: Man of Mystery.   Books By This Author Old Tom: Man Of Mystery Old Tom's Holiday