page_title: Charlotte Hough
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Charlotte Hough / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: After Dark on 26 June 1987: "Killing With Care". With the host for that week Professor Ian Kennedy (left) were guests (left to right) Charlotte Hough, Lord Soper, Professor John Finnis and others.
context_page_description: Charlotte Hough was a British author of over thirty illustrated children's books.
context_section_description: Hough's wrote and illustrated over thirty children's books. Her subjects were often stories about children and animals; their titles included Jim Tiger (1956), The Hampshire Pig (1958), The Animal Game (1959), Algernon (1961), Anna and Minnie (1962), Three Little Funny Ones (1962), The Owl in the Barn (1964), The Trackers (1966), Educating Flora and Other Stories (1968), Sir Frog and Other Stories (1968), The Homemakers (1968), Abdul the Awful and Other Stories (1970), A Bad Child's Book of Moral Verse (1970), My Aunt's Alphabet (1971), Queer Customer (1972), Wonky Donkey (1975), Pink Pig (1975), Bad Cat (1975), The Holiday Story Book (1976), The Mixture as Before (1976),  and Verse and Various (1979). Kirkus Reviews found Hough's Red Biddy and Other Stories (1966) to offer "original fairy tales with a sunny disposition".
  Hough also illustrated works by others, including editions of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, M. E. Atkinson's Castaway Camp (1952) and The Barnstormers (1953), Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did (1958), Marjorie M. Oliver's Land of Ponies (1951), April Jaffe's The Enchanted Horse (1953), and several books by Anita Hewett. 
  She wrote one book for adults, a detective novel, The Bassington Murder (1980).
caption: Charlotte Hough appearing on a television discussion programme After Dark in 1987. Others in the photograph are (pictured from left) host Ian Kennedy, Lord Soper, and John Finnis.
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