Published by Red Fox, part of Random House Children's Publishers UK
Format: Paperback
£6.99
Author:
Shirley Hughes
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781862309906
£6.99
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EAN: 9781862309906
Published: 27 May 2010
Alfie is delighted to be invited to Bernard's birthday party, although he feels a bit nervous about going on his own. But Alfie has such a great time, he finds he doesn't even need his special blanket - and he makes a new friend too!
Join Alfie as he overcomes his shyness and becomes the most helpful guest at the party.
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There's just something so reassuring about Hughes' colourful drawings of the day-to-day activities that you know inside out . . . words and pictures merge seamlessly . . . Hughes is a magical storyteller with an instinctive understanding of the mind of the pre-schooler . . . she makes the ordinary extraordinary
- Guardian
Shirley Hughes is a national treasure
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Hughes' perceptive eye captures the expressions and feelings of small children perfectly
- Scotsman
Shirley Hughes was born and grew up in West Kirby, near Liverpool. She studied at Liverpool Art School and at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, before embarking on a career as a freelance illustrator. At first she worked as an interpretive illustrator, but she began to write and design her own picture books when her children were very young. Her first book, Lucy and Tom's Day, was published in 1960. Now living in London's Notting Hill, Shirley Hughes has illustrated over two hundred children's books. She was honoured with an O. B. E. in 1999 for her outstanding contribution to children's literature and has been the recipient of the Other Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award. Dogger was voted the nation's favourite Greenaway winner.
