Happy 90th, Shirley Hughes! (British illustrator & HCAA nominee)

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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. In 1998, she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen 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.)

I also knew the "My Naughty Little Sister" series by Dorothy Edwards, from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Books she wrote herself include the "Lucie and Tom" series, the "Charlie Moon" series, and "Alfie" series. She illustrated the books of dozens of writers.

https://www.google.com/#q=shirley+hughes+90

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(some birthday tributes)


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

Excerpt:

"...She is perhaps best known for her series of books about two respective sets of siblings, Lucy and Tom and Alfie and Annie Rose. Hughes is also well known for her "Nursery Collection" books, which introduce small children to acts such as giving and helping as well as to basic language and spatial and number concepts, and for her "Trotter Street" series of stories about a group of children and their families in a working-class London neighborhood. In addition to the books she has both written and illustrated, Hughes has provided the pictures for a wealth of titles, mostly for children, by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Honore de Balzac, Nina Bawden, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Helen Cresswell, Margaret Mahy, William Mayne, E. Nesbit, Charles Perrault, Mary Stewart, and Noel Streatfeild; she is also the illustrator of two series, the ten-volume "Naughty Little Sisters" stories by Dorothy Edwards and the five-volume "Wood Street" books by Mabel Esther Allan.

"As an illustrator, Hughes's naturalistic style is considered immediately recognizable. She favors watercolor, black and white line, chalk, and gouache as mediums. Although she fills her pictures with activity and detail, Hughes is acknowledged for her ability to individualize her characters as well as for her delicate use of color. She is also lauded for her technical virtuosity and for her skills as a designer. Hughes often lays out her books so that each page leads readers to a surprise, and she is acclaimed for her inventive use of cartoon strips, speech balloons, margin drawings, double-page spreads, and endpapers. Her artistic approach is often praised for helping to ease the transition between picture books and chapter books for children..."


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

https://www.google.com/search?q=shirley+hughes++books&hl=en&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgh-3qzo7VAhUMdD4KHcxqCtoQ_AUIBygC&biw=1282&bih=831
(a lot more covers)

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKk4r4zo7VAhVIdj4KHdZ_CrAQPAgD#hl=en&q=%22shirley+hughes%22+kirkus
(Kirkus reviews)

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/99888.Shirley_Hughes
(reader reviews)

http://www.walker.co.uk/contributors/Shirley-Hughes-1548.aspx
(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?"

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKk4r4zo7VAhVIdj4KHdZ_CrAQPAgD#hl=en&q=%22shirley+hughes%22++interview
(more interviews)

https://www.google.com/search?q=shirley+hughes++books&hl=en&site=webhp&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVnfrrzo7VAhUFND4KHUXnB2gQ_AUIDSgE&biw=1282&bih=831&dpr=1
(videos)

https://www.google.com/search?q=shirley+hughes++books&hl=en&site=webhp&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVnfrrzo7VAhUFND4KHUXnB2gQ_AUIDSgE&biw=1282&bih=831&dpr=1#hl=en&tbm=vid&q=%22shirley+hughes%22++
(more videos)


Lenona.