Claude in the City In the first book in this adorable new early chapter book series, Claude and his best friend, Sir Bobblysock (who is both a sock and very bobbly), go to the city for the very first time. They have tea in a cafe, go shopping, and visit a museum. It"s a delightful but ordinary day, until Claude accidentally foils a robbery, then heals a whole waiting room full of patients.After briefly considering careers in space travel, cookery and being a rabbit, Alex T Smith finally decided to become an illustrator. He graduated from Coventry University with a degree in Illustration and won second place in the Macmillan Prize for Children"s Illustration. He lives in England.