Old Tom
Leigh Hobbs
Published by Puffin
0-14-036979-1, £2.99 pbk
In the format of a novel but with no more words than a picture book, this is the tale of a quiet and orderly spinster who adopts an abandoned baby monster. The subsequent course of events is highly predictable but entertaining none the less. The scrawly, manic, black-and-white cartoons which carry the main force of the narrative have a demented vigour which matches that of the hell-raising hero.
Reviewed in BfK No. 93 (July 1995) by George Hunt (GH)
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