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He was a storyteller as well as author, usually telling stories of his own invention. He visited many schools to give storytelling sessions; see the reference below for people's memories of his school sessions. He also visited many teacher training colleges to give sessions about storytelling.
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The Bobby
Brewster stories were also offered as a dial-and-listen "bedtime story" service by British Telecom in the 1980s, where children could dial a three-digit BT number and listen to a looped voice recording of a selected Bobby Brewster story every evening.
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Most of these books contain several short stories with simple black line illustrations, most of them by
Lillian Buchanan (1914–2004). There is a list of the individual stories in most of the books below.
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Todd is best known for his "Bobby
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519:Bobby Brewster Bus Conductor
259:Bobby Brewster and the Ghost
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702:Marigolds with a difference
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307:Bobby Brewster's First Fun
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