Leigh Hodgkinson
Leigh Hodgkinson is the author and illustrator of Goldilocks and Just the One Bear, Troll Swap and illustrator of the Magical Mix-Ups series. She is an award-winning animator and worked as art director on the BAFTA-award winning animated series, Charlie and Lola. Leigh is also an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator, who is absolutely passionate about writing, making things up and daydreaming. Among her many brilliant picture books is Don’t Dip Your Chips in Your Drink, Kate, written by Caryl Hart, which won Highly Commended in the 2010 Sheffield Children’s Book Award, Picture Book Category. She lives and works in Sussex with her husband and two young children.
Books
Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Author: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Interest age: 4-6
Reading age: 5+
The little boy in this book is looking for the perfect place to read his book - but nothing he finds is quite right. Hodgkinson's recognisably quirky and appealing rhyming text and illustration celebrates the enduring importance of reading together.
Martha Maps it Out
Author: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 4-5
Reading age: 7+
Martha loves making maps! In this charming and original picture book, follow Martha as she takes you on a tour of her world and shares her hopes and dreams for the future.
Gan gyfuno labeli ffeithiol â manylion difyr yn benodol i sefyllfa Martha ei hun, mae hwn yn llyfr sy'n cynnig dysgu heb fod yn drwm a neges bositif am freuddwydio'n fawr.
Martha Maps It Out In Time
Author: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Interest age: 4-5
Reading age: 6-8
Filled with tons of doodles and interesting notes, Martha Maps It Out In Time takes the reader through the history of the Earth, complete with a cool ‘road map’ of the different evolutionary eras on Earth at the end in a double-page spread
Smile!
Author: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Orchard Books
Interest age: 4+
Reading age: 6+
When Sunny gets told she must not eat chocolate biscuits before teatime, she is very annoyed, and loses her smile.
The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth
Author: Hollie Hughes Illustrator: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Interest age: 4-7
Reading age: 6+
Mammoth has a problem. He's terribly hungry. His tiny friend Bug brings him food, but one gulp later, it's gone - and Mammoth is gloomy and starving, all over again. A charming, comical, rhyming tale of two unlikely friends.
Troll Swap
Author: Leigh Hodgkinson
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Interest age: 3+
Reading age: 6+
A little girl called Tabitha decides to swap places with Timothy the hairy troll in this lively picture book.