Wanting your reader or non reader, who may not yet know how to read, to be so excited they want to turn the page ... The importance of picture books is that they give (children) this chance to go through a story, to respond visually, at their own pace long before they can read and if they get that you've got them. I reckon they'll turn into readers. Shirley Hughes
Do you have a favourite book illustrated by UK illustrator Shirley Hughes. I am certain you will have seen her work - she wrote around fifty books and illustrated a further 200. Kate won Greenaway Medals almost 30 years apart for her illustrations. She also won a BookTrust Lifetime Achievement award in 2015. In 1984 she received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children and books.
I am in awe of illustrators such as the wonderful Shirley Hughes who can capture the joy of little children so perfectly. Begin with this site where you can see her art. Here is a Pinterest of her art. You can also see her work on her Twitter page. Here is a 2018 interview with Book Bag. Now take a look at these images:
Here is a video where Shirley talks about her book The Christmas Eve Ghost in 2010.
Shirley Hughes is such an astute observer of family life, in particular the family life of very young children. ... While Hughes may have planned to produce a concept book or a story with a specific theme, it is her characters that make her books. Her characters have lives of their own, and distinct personalities. The reader feels that they know them. Her black-pen outlines and watercolour illustrations have such warmth and her stories such humour that they resonate with the children and the adults who are reading them. Kinderbookswitheverything
Here are some other videos with and about Shirley Hughes:
What do artists do all day? (Part One 15 minutes) Watch this to see the real toy - Dogger and learn more about the Alfie books. "A book is a wonderful piece of technology ... I want children to learn how to look, how to linger over a picture, and not rush through."
What do artists do all day? (Part Two 13 minutes made in 2016) In this video Shirley talks about the books she made with her daughter Clara.
Book Trust interview (22 minutes) "Reading isn't a competition"
Shirley Hughes on creating Picture Books (5 minutes)
Who is Alfie? (3 minutes)
Reading Dogger (2 minutes)
Shirley Hughes did illustrations in the 1950s and 1960s for many famous authors such as Ian Seraillier; Diana Pullein-Thompson; Efrida Vipond; William Mayne; Noel Streatfeild; Ursula Moray Wlliams; and E Nesbitt. Reference: The Telling Line by Douglas Martin, Magpies Magazine 1989. With so many books I cannot list all of them but here are a few highlights in chronological order up to 1989:
1952 cover for the Australian novel World's end was Home by Nan Chauncy
1954 The Bell Family by Noel Streatfeild
1960 Lucy and Tom's Day
1966 Satchkin Patchkin by Helen Morgan
1966 The Faber Book of Nursery Stories (reprinted 2013)
1968 When my Naughty little sister was good by Dorothy Edwards
1972 The First Margaret Mahy Storybook by Margaret Mahy
1973 The Second Margaret Mahy Storybook by Margaret Mahy
1973 Lucy and Tom go to School
1974 Clothes
1975 Helpers
1975 The Third Margaret Mahy Storybook
1976 Lucy and Tom at the seaside
1977 Dogger
1977 It's too frightening for me!
1978 Moving Molly
1979 Up and Up
1980 Babies need books by Dorothy Butler
1980 Here comes Charlie Moon
1980 Over the Moon: A book of Sayings (reprinted 1998)
1981 Alfie gets in first
1981 Lucy and Tom's Christmas
1982 Alfie's Feet
1983 Alfie gives a hand
1983 Sally's secret
1984 An evening at Alfie's
1984 Lucy and Tom's ABC
1985 Bathwater's Hot
1985 Noisy
1986 Another helping of Chips
1986 Two Shoes, New Shoes
1987 Lucy and Tom;s 123
1988 Out and about
1988 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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