hattytown tales

Keith drew a colourful picture of a little boy in an enormous sombrero hat.  In fact is was ALL hat with a little boy inside.  Just as he gave me a name, he called this boy SANCHO. And Sancho’s best friend was a donkey, called CARROTS, because carrots were his favourite food.

Carrots never knew where to go and so Sancho tied a carrot on a stick and fixed the stick on Carrots’ hat so that his friend had something to follow!

Keith told his young son, Andrew, stories about Sancho and Carrots. 

He began drawing other characters which were mainly all ‘hat’ and these Hatty folk needed homes to live in. And so, yes, you guessed it, they live in a town of Hatty houses called HATTYTOWN.

These HATTYTOWN stories became television programmes for Thames Television and were eventually turned into fantastic puppets animated by FILMFAIR.

Keith wrote over 50 stories for TV and narrated some 40 of them.