Out and About: A First Book of Poems

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The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration, 1786–2003. Chris Beetles Limited. 2003. p.187. ISBN 9781871136845.

In the next session you could talk to the children about being ‘out and about’ what they think it means and their experiences of being outdoors. Much later, she wrote fiction: The Lion and the Unicorn (2000), a short novel with many illustrations for six- to eight-year-olds, and two wartime adventures, Hero on a Bicycle (2012) and Whistling in the Dark (2016). In 2012 she published Dixie O’Day: In The Fast Lane!, the first in an illustrated series created jointly with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy. For her last book, written at the age of 92, she returned to the story of the lost toy dog with a seasonal sequel, Dogger’s Christmas, published in 2020.Ashmolean Museum: Features – Exhibitions – More Details". Ashmolean.org . Retrieved 26 January 2011. D. Martin. "Shirley Hughes", in Douglas Martin, The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp.148–66 Hughes illustrated 200 children's books throughout her career, which sold more than 10 million copies. [11] In WorldCat participating libraries, eight of her ten most widely held works were Alfie books (1981 to 2002). The others were Dogger (rank second) and Out and About (1988). [25] Hughes wrote her first novel in 2015, a young-adult book titled Hero on a Bicycle. [9] She was 84 years of age when she wrote this. [18] a b c d "Children's author Shirley Hughes dies aged 94". BBC News. 2 March 2022 . Retrieved 2 March 2022.

Cottrell-Boyce, Frank (2 March 2022). "Shirley Hughes Showed Our World at Its Best". New Statesman . Retrieved 2 March 2022. Youde, Kate (2 October 2011). "Shirley Hughes: What children want". The Independent. London . Retrieved 2 March 2022. While the premise of many of Shirley’s books remained constant, she was innovative in the ways of telling them. A wordless picture book, Up and Up (1979), was followed by Chips and Jessie (1985), the first in a series of titles told in comic strip format as a way of helping emerging readers move from just pictures to words.

About Shirley Hughes

Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration. [4] [5] [6] In 2007, her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named the public's favourite winning work of the award's first fifty years. [7] [8] She won the inaugural BookTrust lifetime achievement award in 2015. [9] She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. She was a patron of the Association of Illustrators. [10] Early life [ edit ] Carnegie of Carnegies & Greenaway of Greenaways". Christchurch City Libraries Blog. 22 June 2007. Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

Rebecca Cobb. Photograph: Macmillan Rebecca Cobb: ‘The more I look at Hughes’s illustrations the more I appreciate all the little details’ Hughes, Shirley, (Mrs J. S. P. Vulliamy), (born 16 July 1927), free-lance author/illustrator". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi: 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U21128. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4 . Retrieved 16 July 2021.

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Pullman wins 'Carnegie of Carnegies'". Michelle Pauli. guardian.co.uk 21 June 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2012. Winifred Shirley Hughes CBE (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. [1] [2] [3] [4] Her most famous book, Dogger, is about a toy dog who is lost by a small boy, but is then reunited with his owner after being found in a jumble sale. This book was inspired by her son, Ed, who lost his favourite teddy in Holland Park. A real Dogger also existed, and was on display along with the rest of her work at her exhibition in London and Oxford. [18] In literacy you could use this book. To start the topic you could ask them to look at the front cover and talk about the illustration and the title and what type of book they think this is. Dogger (1977), which she wrote and illustrated, was the first story by Hughes to be widely published abroad [17] and it was recognised by the Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal as the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. [4] In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the companion Carnegie Medal in 2007, it named one of the top ten Greenaway Medal-winning works by an expert panel and then named the public favourite, or "Greenaway of Greenaways". (The public voted on the panel's shortlist of ten, selected from the 53 winning works 1955 to 2005. Hughes and Dogger polled 26% of the vote to 25% for its successor as medalist, Janet Ahlberg and Each Peach Pear Plum.) [7] [8] [27] [28]

She enjoyed frequent visits to the theatre with her mother, which gave her a love for observing people and a desire to create. [18] a b c d e f g "Children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes dies at 94". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 6 April 2022.She then studied at the Ruskin in Oxford. According to her autobiography, A Life Drawing (2002), her application to Oxford was based on the misinformation that the city had an ice rink and she “rather fancied myself on ice”. At Ruskin, she studied life drawing, laying the foundation for so much of her later illustrations. Popular children's author to receive honorary degree – University of Liverpool". Liv.ac.uk. 8 July 2004 . Retrieved 26 January 2011. In addition to her own work, Shirley battled hard for the cause of illustrators and authors, serving on the management committees of the Society of Authors, Public Lending Right and the Library and Information Services Council. For Dave in the book, and for a child hearing or reading the story and indeed for any empathetic adult, this is a moment of anguish. What comes into play here is basic feelings about attachment and detachment. Dogger is Dave’s “transitional object”, his mother substitute if you like, and he is forcibly separated from it. The work done by readers reading literature is done right here: we make connections between events, thoughts and emotions through metaphors and symbols. Dogger is Dogger, but what Shirley has shown Dogger to be for Dave, and what Shirley shows happens to Dogger, means a lot more. And being detached is a feeling that isn’t bounded by age, which explains why and how Shirley’s books are, as I say, so intergenerational.