Ed Vulliamy
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Writer - The Guardian & The Observer | Amexica 'War Along the Borderline' | The War is Dead, Long Live the War | When Words Fail: A Life With Music, War & Peace
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Who is joining us tonight at the Orange Beak Studio Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award launch? I have treats for your eyes! And you need to know what Mum REALLY thought about quantum physics…
orangebeakstudio.com/shirley-hughes…
Today's Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas comes from Alfie's Christmas, one of the stories in the PuffinBooks collection A Shirley Hughes Christmas.
Great-Uncle Will and Alfie go out after lunch to test Alfie's new scooter.
For today’s Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas we turn to Angel on the Roof, the story of Lewis Brown who one day spots a single golden feather fluttering down from the sky and discovers an angel on the roof.
Today's Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas takes us to The Snow Lady, one of the stories in Snow in the Garden.
Today's Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas takes us to this scene where Dave has left Dogger propped up on the windowsill. Mum, Bella and Dave are Christmas shopping and they are gone a very long time.
You'll find this in Dogger's Christmas & A Shirley Hughes Christmas.
Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas
One of my favourite of Mum’s illustrations is for the poem Hoping, which features in Snow in the Garden: A First Book of Christmas. How perfectly she captures the thrilling anticipation. She really is unmatched for her evocative back views. Clara
For today’s Shirley Hughes #12DaysofChristmas we turn to My Naughty Little Sister and Father Christmas. Shirley credited Dorothy Edwards, author of the series, for giving her a big break when she asked her to illustrate all of the stories about the naughty girl and Bad Harry.