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A Shirley Hughes Christmas: A festive treasury of three favourite stories

English

By (author): Shirley Hughes

Discover this timeless collection of festive stories

It's nearly Christmas, and it's time for everyone's favourite Shirley Hughes characters to get ready for the most magical time of the year.

There are presents to be hidden, Christmas trees to be decorated and carols to be sung. And when Christmas Eve finally arrives, will Father Christmas come for Lucy and Tom, Alfie and Dave?

This very special treasury contains three best-loved festive stories:

Lucy and Tom at Christmas
Alfie's Christmas
Dogger's Christmas


Packed full of festive excitement and joy, this is the perfect gift, made to be read again and again.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 740g
  • Dimensions: 256 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 0-5
  • ISBN13: 9780241680223

About Shirley Hughes

Shirley Hughes illustrated more than 200 children's books and is one of the best-loved writers for children known for her beloved classics including the Alfie and Annie Rose stories and Dogger.Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby near Liverpool in 1927 and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She started her career as a freelance illustrator in London illustrating other writers' work including Noel Streatfeild Alison Uttley Ian Seraillier and notably Dorothy Edwards's My Naughty Little Sister series.Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960 and she followed it with among others Dogger and the Alfie series. Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up collection of rhymes and poems Out and About and for the very young The Nursery Collection.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. Her memoir A Life Drawing was published in 2002.She also collaborated with her daughter Clara Vulliamy on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations.In 2020 she returned to her much-loved character Dogger with a new story Dogger's Christmas.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. In 2007 Dogger was voted the public's favourite Greenaway winner of all time. She was Highly Commended for the Greenaway Medal for The Lion and the Unicorn in 1998. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature and a CBE in 2017. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.Shirley died in London in 2022.

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