Happy 80th, Shirley Hughes! (British writer; illustrator o..

Some say she was born in 1929.

She lives in London. Winner of the 1977 Kate Greenaway Medal for
"Dogger" and again in 2003 for "Ella's Big Chance." She also won the
1984 Eleanor Farjeon Award.

Mother of illustrator Clara Vulliamy.

I know Hughes mainly for her pictures in Mary Stewart's "The Little
Broomstick" and the ones she did in the 1970s in "Cricket" for Ann-
Cath Vestly's book "Hello, Aurora!" (I only wish Hughes had been able
to make that into a book edition - there are three illustrators for
Vestly's stories about a 1960s Norwegian girl with a stay-at-home dad,
but none is Hughes and at least one illustrator is pathetic. The
stories were very controversial in Norway at the time. Besides,
Hughes' warm style, even in black and white, was perfect, IMHO.)

http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1531/Hughes-Shirley-1927.html
(includes bibliography)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=%22shirley+hughes%22+
(covers, photos)

http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Shirley-Hughes
(bio/interview - excerpt: " I can't bear hearing grown-ups telling
children they can't have picture books any more as they can read! Why
remove such a great narrative pleasure?")

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/book...rticle7
(interview - includes discussion about "Alfie")

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000015904,00.html
(bio, with quotes & critics' remarks)

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/shirley/intro.asp
(article - includes photo)


Lenona.