Dixie O'Day: In The Fast Lane (HB)
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A01=Shirley Hughes
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Age Group_Ages 5-7
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Author_Shirley Hughes
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Product details
- ISBN 9781782300120
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 291g
- Dimensions: 135 x 185mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 5-7
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Shirley was born in West Kirby near Liverpool 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 then embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in London where she still lives today. 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. Shirley Hughes has won 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. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature.Clara was born in Notting Hill and studied at Chelsea School of Art The Ruskin in Oxford and The Royal Academy. She began her career by doing illustrations in newspapers and magazines and started doing books for children when she had children of her own. Clara lives in Twickenham with her husband and two grown-up children.
