She wrote and illustrated over 200 cherished children’s books, including the celebrated Alfie stories.

EYFS: Listen and Play - At the seaside - BBC Teach EYFS: Listen and Play - At the seaside - BBC Teach

She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz. These Kinderly activities are intended to inspire early years practitioners with ideas based on children’s existing interests and fascinations or to ignite the spark of new ones. Lucy and Tom at the Seaside– Follow Lucy and Tom’s adventures at the beach and enjoy Shirley Hughes’ delightful illustrations in this beautifully told story.Meet Lucy and Tom, the creations of Shirley Hughes, illustrator extraordinaire, in her reissued story of everyday family life. Younger (and older) children can enjoy making sandhills to jump off or digging holes in the sand – who can dig the deepest? Once they are familiar with the song they could try the traditional game (it works best if adults are Arch and Leader). Your children will love singing songs, meeting 'Lucy and Tom at the Seaside', playing games, designing and making their own light houses, making their own healthy smoothies and having a seaside party to celebrate at the end!

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This story is one of my 3-year-old's favourite in a treasury book of baby and toddler stories and rhymes we have. If you can’t get to a real beach most of these activities can also be done at the setting or home too, and remember activities can be adapted for children of all ages. With gentle illustrations and easy-to-read text, Lucy and Tom at the Seaside is perfect for summer celebrations.

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Key vocabulary: sea , beach , waves , seagulls , sun cream , sandcastle , moat , bucket , spade , ice-cream , fish and chips , t-shirt , shorts , sandals , funfair , donkeys . Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. Lucy and Tom at the SeasideBOOK DETAILAge Range: Baby - 5 years Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten Series: Lucy and Tom Paperback: 32 pages Publisher: Red Fox; Reprintedition (March 1, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 178295516X ISBN-13: 978-1782955160Book DescriptionLucy and Tom are celebrating 55 years in publication in 2015 with this gorgeous reissue of a timeless Shirley Hughes picture book Everyelement of a wonderful family day at the seaside is captured as Lucy and Tom help Dad make a beautiful sand castle, find a crab's claw in arock-pool, and make seaweedy faces in the sand.She won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and was awarded the OBE for her distinguished service to children's literature. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. Talk about different types of beaches: rocky with pools, sandy, pebbles, small coves and wide bays, big waves or calm ripples. Shirley Hughes is the illustrator of more than two hundred children’s books and has won many prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice.