Shirley Hughes (1927–2022)

Author of Dogger

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About the Author

Author and illustrator Shirley Hughes was born near Liverpool, U. K. on July 16, 1927. She studied drawing and costume design at Liverpool School of Art and the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford. At first she was an illustrator of other author's works, but in 1960 she published Lucy and Tom's Day, show more which was the first book she wrote and illustrated. Since then she has written and illustrated over 50 books. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Dogger in 1977, the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children's literature in 1984, and the OBE for services to children's literature in 1998. She currently lives in London with her husband. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Series

Shirley Hughes' Nursery Collection

Little greats

Alfie and Annie Rose

Dixie O'Day

Works by Shirley Hughes

Popular Recent

Dogger (1977) 796 copies

Alfie Gets in First (1981) 533 copies

Alfie Gives a Hand (1983) 400 copies

Alfie's Feet (1982) 354 copies

The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storybook (1988) 284 copies

An Evening at Alfie's (1984) 246 copies

Out and About (1988) 236 copies

Giving (1993) 225 copies

The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook (1992) 218 copies

Don't Want to Go! (2010) 202 copies

Hero on a Bicycle (2012) 198 copies

All About Alfie (1992) 179 copies

Year Round Things to Do (1966) 170 copies

Alfie and the Birthday Surprise (1997) 134 copies

Ella’s Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella (2003) 132 copies

Rhymes for Annie Rose (1995) 131 copies

Annie Rose Is My Little Sister (2002) 125 copies

Up and up (1711) 124 copies

Moving Molly (1978) 118 copies

Angel Mae (Tales from Trotter Street) (1989) 115 copies

Lucy and Tom's Christmas (1981) 110 copies

Stories by Firelight (1993) 108 copies

Lucy and Tom's ABC (1984) 101 copies

Colours (Nursery Collection) (1641) 99 copies

Alfie and the Big Boys (2007) 96 copies

Alfie's ABC (1997) 94 copies

Bouncing (1600) 93 copies

Two Shoes, New Shoes (Nursery Collection) (1858) 92 copies

Hiding (1622) 92 copies

All Shapes and Sizes (Nursery Collection) (1600) 90 copies

Noisy (Nursery Collection) (1985) 88 copies

The Nursery Collection (1994) 82 copies

Bathwater's Hot (1985) 80 copies

The Lion and the Unicorn (1999) 76 copies

Alfie's 1 2 3 (1999) 75 copies

George the Babysitter (1882) 73 copies

When We Went to the Park (1985) 72 copies

The Big Concrete Lorry (Tales from Trotter Street) (1989) 70 copies

Sally's Secret (1882) 69 copies

Enchantment in the garden (1688) 68 copies

Lucy and Tom Go to School (1973) 68 copies

Chatting (1994) 62 copies

Lucy and Tom at the Seaside (1976) 62 copies

Bobbo Goes to School (2013) 61 copies

Alfie's Christmas (2013) 60 copies

Helpers (1844) 57 copies

Lucy and Tom's 1 2 3 (Picture Puffin) (1987) 57 copies

The Christmas Eve Ghost (2010) 57 copies

The Snow Lady (1990) 54 copies

Alfie Wins a Prize (2004) 54 copies

Abel's Moon (1999) 53 copies

Wheels (Tales from Trotter Street) (1600) 53 copies

Alfie Weather (1800) 50 copies

Shirley Hughes Collection (2000) 50 copies

Olly and Me (2004) 50 copies

Dixie O'Day in the Fast Lane (2013) 48 copies

Tales of Trotter Street (1996) 48 copies

It's too frightening for me! (1600) 47 copies

A Life Drawing: Autobiography of Shirley Hughes (2002) 46 copies

Whistling in the Dark (2015) 40 copies

Let's Join in (Olly & Me) (1998) 38 copies

Daisy Saves the Day (2014) 34 copies

Chips and Jessie (1985) 31 copies

The Trouble with Jack (1970) 30 copies

Here Comes Charlie Moon (Lions) (1982) 29 copies

A Brush With the Past: 1900 - 1950 The Years that Changed our Lives (2005) 28 copies

Lucy and Tom's Day (1986) 27 copies

Alfie's World (2006) 25 copies

Olly and Me 123 (2009) 24 copies

Dixie O'Day and the Great Diamond Robbery (2015) 23 copies

Snow in the Garden: A First Book of Christmas (2018) 21 copies

Alfie's Shop (2013) 21 copies

Over the Moon: Book of Sayings (1980) 20 copies

The Faber Book of Nursery Stories (1966) — Illustrator; Illustrator — 20 copies

Things I Like (2001) 18 copies

Helping (1999) 18 copies

Another Helping of Chips (1986) 17 copies

Charlie Moon and the Big Bonanza Bust-up (1982) 16 copies

Lucy and Tom's 1, 2, 3 and ABC (1999) 15 copies

Alfie at Nursery School (2018) 13 copies

Alfie Outdoors (2015) 12 copies

Alfie and Grandma (2015) 12 copies

Playing (1997) 12 copies

Ruby in the Ruins (2018) 12 copies

Dogger's Christmas (2020) 12 copies

My First ABC (2017) 11 copies

Alfie's ABC and 123 (2002) 11 copies

123 - The Nursery Collection 11 copies

Being Together (1997) 11 copies

Jonadab and Rita (Alfie) (2008) 10 copies

Opposites - The Nursery Collection (2016) 10 copies

Bye Bye Birdie (2009) 10 copies

A Year of Stories and Things to Do (2014) 10 copies

By Sun and Candlelight (2010) 10 copies

Alfie and His Very Best Friend (2016) 9 copies

Keeping Busy (1999) 9 copies

Charlie Moon Collection (1998) 8 copies

Mother & Child Treasury (1998) 8 copies

All around me : a first book of childhood (2019) 8 copies

ABC - The Nursery Collection (2016) 7 copies

Shirley Hughes Alfie 10 Children's Books Collection (Alfie Gets in First,Alfie Gives a Hand,Alfie's Feet,An Evening at… (2016) 7 copies

Puddles and Parties (2011) 7 copies

My Alfie Collection: Four Classic Storybooks (2011) 7 copies

Alfie on Holiday (2019) 6 copies

Make Hay While the Sun Shines (1998) 6 copies

Father's Day (2019) 5 copies

Alfie and Dad (2017) 4 copies

Dixie O'Day and the Haunted House (2015) 4 copies

My First 123 (2017) 4 copies

Round and Round the Garden: A First Book of Nursery Rhymes (2021) 4 copies

Dixie O'Day on His Bike (2016) 3 copies

A nagy gyémántrablás (2017) 2 copies

Haunted house (1978) 2 copies

Summer - The Nursery Collection (2016) 2 copies

Alfie Gets in First and Other Stories (2017) 2 copies

Tutti a spasso (2019) 2 copies

The Big Alfie And Annie Rose Storybook (Red Fox Picture Books) by Shirley Hughes (5-Jul-1990) Paperback 2 copies

Lucy & Tom: From One to Ten (2018) 2 copies

Alfie (2013) 2 copies

Peluche (Spanish Edition) (2017) 2 copies

Shirley Hughes Baby Record Book: The First Five Years (2013) 2 copies

Mother's day (2018) 2 copies

Alfie and Mum (2016) 2 copies

Baby Records Book (Stationery) (1993) 2 copies

Paolo's oorlog (2017) 2 copies

The Charlie Moon Collection (2014) 2 copies

Ourselves and other Animals (1996) 1 copy

The Nursery Rhyme Collection: Autumn 1 copy

Gosset (2010) 1 copy

Alfi jalad 1 copy

Rik en ik (2004) 1 copy

Lucy & Tom: From A to Z (Lucy and Tom) (2018) 1 copy

The Nursery Rhyme Collection: Summer 1 copy

Léon Klaxon, t.1 (2014) 1 copy

The Shirley Hughes Nursery Collection 10 Books Set (2019) 1 copy

Two shoes, New Shoes 1 copy

A nagy autóverseny (2017) 1 copy

The Charlie Moon Collection: "Here Comes Charlie Moon", "Charlie Moon and the B (Bodley Head Fiction) 1 copy

Mae'n fy n-nychryn i! (1991) 1 copy

Autumn -The nursery collection 1 copy

Charlie the Tramp 1 copy

Alfie Collection: Alfie Gets in First, Alfie's Feet, an Evening at Alfie's, Alfie Gives a Hand (2011) 1 copy

Big Dog 1 copy

The Twelve Dancing Princesses (1965) 1 copy

Alfie - Alfie's numbers 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

The Secret Garden (1910) — Illustrator, some editions — 34,063 copies

Little Women (1868) — Illustrator, some editions — 25,678 copies

The Velveteen Rabbit (1922) — Introduction, some editions — 13,565 copies

The Little Broomstick (1971) — Illustrator, some editions — 292 copies

The Bell Family (1954) — Illustrator — 262 copies

The Witch's Daughter (1966) — Illustrator, some editions — 215 copies

New Town (1960) — Illustrator, some editions — 142 copies

The Flight of the Heron (1925) — Cover artist, some editions — 132 copies

When My Naughty Little Sister Was Good (1968) — Illustrator — 130 copies

My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry (1974) — Illustrator — 110 copies

The Thirteen Days of Christmas (1972) — Illustrator, some editions — 89 copies

The Lost Angel (1971) — Illustrator, some editions — 80 copies

The Three Toymakers (1946) — Illustrator — 76 copies

Stories for Seven Year Olds (Young Puffin Books) (1964) — Illustrator, some editions — 71 copies

Fell Farm Campers (1960) — Illustrator, some editions — 64 copies

Squib (1971) — Illustrator, some editions — 59 copies

Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art (2003) — Contributor — 43 copies

It's Fun To Be Five (2000) — Contributor — 35 copies

The Complete My Naughty Little Sister Storybook (1997) — Illustrator — 30 copies

My Naughty Little Sister Storybook (1991) — Illustrator — 28 copies

Flowering Spring (1960) — Illustrator — 26 copies

Childhood Favourites: A Collection to Treasure (Anthology) (2000) 26 copies

Mystery on the Fourteenth Floor (1964) — Illustrator — 23 copies

Trouble With Dragons (1978) — Illustrator — 15 copies

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales - Retold by E. Jean Roberton from the Original English Version by Caroline Peachey (1961) — Illustrator — 14 copies

The Bronze Chrysanthemum (1961) — Illustrator — 11 copies

Tattercoats, and other folk tales (1976) — Illustrator, some editions — 10 copies

The First Margaret Mahy Story Book (1972) — Illustrator — 9 copies

Hundreds and Hundreds (1984) — Contributor — 8 copies

The New Tenants — Illustrator — 5 copies

Witchdust (1980) — Illustrator — 5 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1976 (1976) — Illustrator — 4 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 5, January 1978 — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 5, January 1977 (1977) — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5, January 1976 (1976) — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 7, March 1976 (1976) — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 10, June 1976 — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8, April 1976 (1976) — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 9, May 1981 (1981) — Illustrator — 3 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1975 — Illustrator — 2 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 1980 — Illustrator — 2 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 9, May 1977 (1977) — Illustrator — 2 copies

Varoom! 11 (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 1977 (1977) — Illustrator — 2 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 8, April 1977 (1977) — Illustrator — 1 copy

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Illustrator — 1 copy

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 11, July 1977 — Illustrator — 1 copy

Mary Kate and the Jumble Bear (1967) — Illustrator — 1 copy

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 12, August 1978 (1978) — Illustrator — 1 copy

Federico (1971) — Illustrator, some editions — 1 copy

Illustrators 32 (1980) — Contributor — 1 copy

Illustrators 33 (1980) — Contributor — 1 copy

Illustration, Autumn 2006, issue 9 : The hunt for Lewis Carroll's snark (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1927-07-16
Date of death: 2022-02-25
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: West Kirby, England, UK
Places of residence: London, England, UK
Education: West Kirby High School
Liverpool School of Art
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford
Occupations: writer
illustrator
children's book author
Relationships: Vulliamy, John (husband|1952|his death|2007)
Vulliamy, Ed (son)
Vulliamy, Clara (daughter)
Vulliamy, C. E. (father-in-law)
Organizations: Society of Authors
Public Lending Right
Library and Information Services Council
Awards and honors: Eleanor Farjeon Award (1984)
Liverpool John Moores University (honorary fellow)
Order of the British Empire (Officer ∙ 1999)
Action for Children's Arts (J. M. Barrie Award|2010)

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Reviews

Olly and Me by Shirley Hughes

This story is of a young brother and sister pair and their everyday lives with Dad and friends.
3-7
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Enchantment in the Garden by Shirley Hughes

This is a story about a lonely Valerie who is looking for a friend when a statue in the garden comes to life, but then shortly after, disappears.
5-9
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Don't Want to Go! by Shirley Hughes

Lily's mom is sick and her dad needs to go to work, so they plan to drop her off for the day at Melanie's house. She doesn't want to go and is scared of the unfamiliar situation and this story follows how Lily will overcome her fear and have fun.
3-7 years old
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