Out and About: A First Book of Poems

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Yes. I was given my OBE by the queen. I doubt she’s read my books, she hasn’t got time! But she’s very gracious and delightful. I can’t think how she does it considering how many people she meets. I have no preference . I loved working on my teen books but I would never give up illustrating. I am an artist. I always draw and paint – that’s what I’m programmed to do. Hughes died on 25 February 2022 at her home in London. She was 94, and suffered from a brief illness prior to her death. [11] [14] She was paid tribute to by the UK's largest children's reading charity, the BookTrust, who said they were "devastated" by her death and that her "incredible stories and illustrations, from Dogger to Alfie and Lucy and Tom, have touched so many generations and are still so loved. Thank you, Shirley.” [26] Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, praised her, noting that she "began the reading lives of so many millions." [11] Awards [ edit ] Sweeter and emotionally safer verse for the very young comes from the prolific British writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes. “Out and About: A First Book of Poems” is full of breezes and sunshine. At the moment I’m working on a book called Alfie and Bernard. Alfie has a friend called Bernard who is a character in lots of my Alfie books. I will reveal that in it that there is a scooter race and scooters are very, very hard to draw! Someone said when they are 16, Bernard is going to get the girl. But I want to assure everybody that Alfie and Bernard are never going to grow up and be teenagers. They are always going to be at pre-school.

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D. Martin. "Shirley Hughes", in Douglas Martin, The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp.148–66 Shirley was just the person that those who loved her illustrations would expect her to be. Usually in a hat, she was effortlessly elegant and graceful, and wonderful company: funny, insightful and kind with a laugh that was both loud and heartfelt. Ashmolean Museum: Features – Exhibitions – More Details". Ashmolean.org . Retrieved 26 January 2011. Shirley Hughes ( 1927 – 2022)was born and grew up in West Kirby, near Liverpool. She studied at Liverpool Art School and at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, before embarking on a career as a freelance illustrator. At first she worked as an interpretive illustrator, but she began to write and design her own picture books when her children were very young. Her first book, Lucy and Tom's Day, was published in 1960.The author portrays poems through words and illustrations. I gave this book four stars because it introduces young readers to the various forms of poetry and messes with the equilibrium by making the statement: poetry isn’t just words that rhyme. I can’t answer that! I just suddenly thought I would and wrote Hero on a Bicycle which is all about prisoners of war, a very heroic tale. Nobody encouraged me to before, they wanted me to do picture books and I still do. I just came to it late. I never even tried to write novels before! Just lovely! The fours seasons seen through a child's eyes. Everyday experiences that are special because you're young and the world is so full of excitement and beauty. The illustrations are charming and full of detail. I'm not always a fan of children's poetry collections but this one delighted me. Here's one of my favorites: a b c d Emily Drabble, Shirley Hughes: I hope books survive, they are wonderful pieces of technology, The Guardian, 6 July 2015. A cross curricular link to science would be when teaching about seasonal changes as this book has poems relating to every season.

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The poems are short, expressive and capture each of the seasons and experiences as the child is “Out and About” the neighborhood or down at the seaside. It has been said by Philip Pullman, “Shirley Hughes is a national treasure.” How true. Families will treasure this delightful book and probably pass it along to future generations. Carnegie of Carnegies & Greenaway of Greenaways". Christchurch City Libraries Blog. 22 June 2007. Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 3 December 2012. Alfie starred in many subsequent stories, along with his little sister Annie Rose, including An Evening at Alfie’s, Alfie Gives a Hand and Alfie Wins a Prize. Their simple childhood adventures, set in a British urban world of birthday parties, park visits and local fairs, were fittingly modernised over the years and continued to delight generations of children and their parents, with the most recent book in the series, Alfie on Holiday, published in 2019. The internationally acclaimed Shirley Hughes offers a treasury of seasonal poems that evoke the day-to-day experiences of the very young.She could create a sense of drama out of the smallest thing and resolve it without ever needing to deliver a message. Instead, she relied on children and their parents being largely sensible and so able to solve problems for themselves. Perry’s cousin and Lindsey’s sister, Rita Isbell, who is portrayed as calling Peters’s Dahmer “Satan” in a series courtroom scene, wrote separately that the show felt “harsh and careless”. 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.

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Shirley Hughes, who has died aged 94, was an award-winning author of more than 50 children’s books, and illustrator of some 200 more, with worldwide sales of more than 11m. She had an exceptional talent for drawing children. Through her warm-hearted observation, particularly of pre-school children, she created a distinctive and affectionate visual image of childhood that has been instantly recognisable for more than 60 years. Youde, Kate (2 October 2011). "Shirley Hughes: What children want". The Independent. London . Retrieved 2 March 2022. Shirley Hughes illustrated over two hundred children's books and is renowned as a champion of children's literature. She has been the recipient of the Other Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award. She was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in2010, which rewards the best in contemporary children's and young adult literature from all over the world.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.

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Hughes at her best. Simple, evocative rhymes conjure up images that then explode in the magnificent richness of her paintings. Guardian No one has won three Greenaway Medals. Among the fourteen illustrators with two Medals, Hughes is one of seven with one book named to the Anniversary Top Ten (1955–2005); one of seven with at least one highly commended runner up (1974–2002); one of six with at least three commendations (1959–2002). 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] Ella's big chance: a Jazz-Age Cinderella in libraries ( WorldCat catalog) —immediately, first US editionViewers see how Tony Hughes – portrayed by deaf actor and former reality television star Rodney Burford – loses his hearing in his infancy after a doctor misprescribed him medication amid what his mother has previously described as a battle with pneumonia.