![]() Perfectly alternating her text between correspondences from a traveling Toot, and the activities of Puddle back home, Hobbie the writer is also remarkable. Puddle loves to stay home and Toot loves to travel. Toot and Puddle, two exuberant pigs, live together in Woodcock Pocket. ![]() Her exquisite art seems to glow with life. With an expert eye and a varied palette, she’s able to flawlessly represent the radiance of the rising sun streaming through a window or the steely gray sky of an early March morning. She’s able to depict each individual flake of snow, every square of the pattern on a chair, and yet the art never feels crowded. Hobbie’s penchant for detail has not waned her delicate style has been perfected. It’s the beginnings of a style that will one day produce the two glorious characters, Toot and Puddle. Her meticulously detailed, delicate art is lovely and endearing. Looking back on those images now, it’s clear that Holly Hobbie, the artist, is extremely talented. That contemplative girl just did not speak to me. Personally, I was never able to connect with the character of Holly Hobbie. ![]() Until I started working on this review, that trademarked name was the only true connection I could find between the once ubiquitous little girl and these two delightful pigs. Hobbie designed the young girl that bears her name in 1967, while working with American Greetings. Many readers may associate the name Holly Hobbie with an image of a cat-loving girl in a patchwork dress, wearing an over-sized bonnet. ![]()
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