| Shirley
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| Nationality - English |
Profession - Author & Illustrator |
| Date of birth - 16 Jul 1929
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Date of death - Still with us |
| Place of birth
- Holylake : Lancashire |
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Shirley Hughes was born and raised in West Kirby, a quiet seaside town on the Wirral. She was the daughter of local businessman TJ Hughes who founded the renowned Liverpool store.
Her wartime childhood was spent drawing, playing and making up stories and games with her two sisters. Encouraged and inspired by visits to Liverpool's magnificent art gallery, the Walker, Shirley developed a lifelong interest in 'narrative painting', or pictures that tell stories.
After a year at Liverpool Art School studying costume design, Shirley moved on to the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art in Oxford. It was here she began to always carry a sketchbook with her, drawing figures from her daily life.
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She soon settled in Notting Hill, London and concentrated on book illustration, initially for other people. Her drawings included those for 'My Naughty Little Sister' by Dorothy Edwards and 'The Bell Family' by Noel Streatfield.
Shirley believes that young children derive great pleasure in stories that put them at the centre of a plot and help them to understand their place in a bigger picture. In particular, she uses her evocative illustrations to help them to explore the details of the tales in their own time, alongside the storylines.
Her more recent projects include a wordless story called 'Up and Up' about a little girl that flies, and several books for older children, with more sophisticated and adventurous pictures based on sketches taken in Britain, France and Italy.
Since Shirley Hughes started writing when she had a young family of her own, nearly fifty of her storybooks have been published. She and her husband have lived in the same house in Notting Hill, London, for nearly fifty years and have three grown-up children and seven grandchildren. |
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Shirley Hughes
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