Leigh Hodgkinson is an author, illustrator, animation director, designer and kids tv creator. She has made around 25 books that have been published all over the world. Leigh is the designer and co-creator of Cbeebies show, Olobob Top. Leigh writes a diary every day, likes swimming, stripes, buttons, cheese, listening to records and making things out of old things. She is not so keen on slugs, tidying or parking. Find her online at www.leighhodgkinson.co.uk, on Twitter as @hoonbutton and on Instagram as @leigh_hodgkinson.

A pea slurps, gobbles and munches his way through a feat in this comic reimagining of The Princess and the Pea […] Hodgkinson, who co-creaed Olibob Top, clearly had fun imagining why the Pea of the original tale stopped the princess from sleeping, and in this bright and bouncy version the Pea is gloriously greedy and round.