Holly Hobbie
Denise Holly Hobbie (née Ulinskas; born 1944) is an American writer, watercolorist and illustrator. She is best known for creating the American Greetings character which, originally unnamed, is now also called Holly Hobbie. She also created the Toot & Puddle series of children's books. Personal life
She is from Connecticut and married Douglas Hobbie in 1964. She resides in Conway, Massachusetts. Born Holly Ulinskas from Watertown, CT

Career

Author
Hobbie is the author of the popular Toot & Puddle children's books and the creator of the character bearing her name. Namesake character

In the late 1960s, at the encouragement of her brother-in-law, Hobbie sold distinctive artwork of a cat-loving, rag dress-wearing little girl in a giant bonnet to American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio. The artwork, based on Hobbie's own children and with rustic New England style of a bygone era, became popular, and her originally nameless character (identified earlier as "blue girl") became known as Holly Hobbie. Works

Toot & Puddle series
Toot & Puddle are best friends, even though Toot likes to travel and Puddle likes to stay at home in Woodcock Pocket. Books
 Toot & Puddle 
 A Present for Toot 
 You Are My Sunshine 
 Puddle's ABC 
 I'll Be Home For Christmas 
 Top of the World 
 Charming Opal
 The New Friend
 Wish You Were Here 
 The One and Only 
 Let It Snow
 How Does Your Garden Grow? Television show
The adaptation of the books, Toot & Puddle was made in 2008 by Mercury Filmworks, National Geographic Kids, and Treehouse TV. Film
In December 2006, Toot & Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas aired on Treehouse in Canada and on Noggin in the US. It was released on DVD by National Geographic. Other books
 Elmore (2018)
 A Cat Named Swan (2017)
 The night before Christmas (Text by Clement Clarke Moore) (2013)
 Gem (2012)
 Fanny (2008)
 Fanny & Annabelle (2009)
 Everything But The Horse: A Childhood Memory (2010)
 The Art of Holly Hobbie (1980)
 Holly Hobbie's the night before Christmas (1976)

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1944 births
Living people
American children's writers
20th-century American illustrators
Artists from Massachusetts
Writers from Massachusetts
People from Conway, Massachusetts
People from Watertown, Connecticut
American women children's writers
American women illustrators
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American illustrators