A Life Drawing

Informationen zum Autor 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. She illustrated other writers' work! including Noel Streatfeild! Alison Uttley! Ian Seraillier! Margaret Mahy 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. 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. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature! and a CBE in 2017. She is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. Klappentext Beginning with a small girl in West Kirby obsessed with Comics! Shirley Hughes' story takes us through World War II! and to a career which began with Art School in a blitzed Liverpool! led to Oxford and then to London! illustrated with her own art work. Zusammenfassung Beginning with a small girl in West Kirby obsessed with Comics, Shirley Hughes' story takes us through World War II, and to a career which began with Art School in a blitzed Liverpool, led to Oxford and then to London, illustrated with her own art work.

Product details

• Authors: Estate of Shirley Hughes, Shirley Hughes, Hughes Shirley
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2002
• EAN: 9780370326054
• ISBN: 978-0-370-32605-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 244 mm x 292 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Art, music; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Art, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Art / General, Interest age: from c 12 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists, Art: general interest (Children's / Teenage)