Out and About: A First Book of Poems

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In this wonderful collection of poems, Katie and her little brother Olly romp through the changing seasons, taking pleasure in the different elements and weather conditions - sunshine, wind, rain, mist, snow... About This Edition ISBN: 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.

Out and About: A First Book of Poems by 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 ] Hughes at her best. Simple, evocative rhymes conjure up images that then explode in the magnificent richness of her paintings. Guardian According to CCSU, some runners up through 2002 were Commended (from 1959) or Highly Commended (from 1974). There were 99 commendations of both kinds in 44 years; 31 high commendations in 29 years including Hughes and Jane Simmons in 1998.Young readers and listeners will be able to relate to these outings. Cadence, meter, and rhyme long to be read aloud. 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. Oh very much an illustrator. I started as an illustrator of other people’s books and I did all kinds of stuff before I wrote my own books. My big break was illustrating the wonderful My Naughty Little Sister books by Dorothy Edwards. You’re as good as your text when you’re an illustrator and these books are terrific. Then someone suggested I should do a book of my own, and I wrote and illustrated Lucy and Tom – that was 55 years ago! You’ve won the Kate Greenaway medal twice, you’re an OBE and you’ve just won the Book Trust lifetime achievement award. What do you think of as your greatest achievement in life?

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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. The hit series’ main players, including creator Ryan Murphy and Dahmer actor Evan Peters, have insisted that the show strived to put the victims’ stories and their families’ trauma at the heart of the production. In 1984, Hughes won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to children's literature, in 1999 she was awarded an OBE, and in 2000 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was also granted an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University [19] and Honorary Degrees by the University of Liverpool in 2004 [30] and the University of Chester in 2012. [31]

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