Bad habits! - Babette Cole

Lucretia Crum is a little monster with big bad habits. She wants to have a birthday party but all the really big monsters turn up and they're really, really bad! The fantastically comical illustrations and the naughty but fun text make it a real delight.

Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.