Out and About: A First Book of Poems

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I didn’t like school much. I wasn’t very good academically. I swanned along and I was passionately keen on art. In the wartime it was absolutely freezing at school, we huddled along together. I left as soon as I could and went to Liverpool Art School when I was 16, to study history of costume. Later I decided to be an illustrator but I do think a book is a little theatre. Shirley was just the person that those who loved her illustrations would expect her to be. Usually in a hat, she was effortlessly elegant and graceful, and wonderful company: funny, insightful and kind with a laugh that was both loud and heartfelt. I never am bored. I don’t suffer from boredom. But if I have nothing to do, I wander about the garden and chat to my friends and family. In 1952 she married John Vulliamy; he died in 2007. She is survived by their three children, Ed, a journalist, Clara, an author and illustrator, and Tom, a research scientist. In 1984, Hughes won the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to children's literature, in 1999 she was awarded an OBE, and in 2000 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was also granted an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University [19] and Honorary Degrees by the University of Liverpool in 2004 [30] and the University of Chester in 2012. [31]

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He grows up communicating through sign language, reading lips and writing notes by hand. His sister tells him she wants to name the child she is expecting after him. He also is close to his mother, has dreams of modeling, hopes to find a committed romantic partner, and enjoys dancing at clubs with two friends who – like him – are deaf and gay.Booktrust, the UK's largest reading charity, awarded Hughes their first lifetime achievement award in 2015. [9] The episode – titled “Silenced” – shows Hughes meeting Dahmer during a night out and striking up a relationship with him. The show implies that, as Hughes tries to leave after a night spent together, Dahmer murders him, possibly with a bloodied hammer. In addition to her own work, Shirley battled hard for the cause of illustrators and authors, serving on the management committees of the Society of Authors, Public Lending Right and the Library and Information Services Council.

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Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children's book illustration. [4] [5] [6] In 2007, her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named the public's favourite winning work of the award's first fifty years. [7] [8] She won the inaugural BookTrust lifetime achievement award in 2015. [9] She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. She was a patron of the Association of Illustrators. [10] Early life [ edit ] Were the characters of Whistling in the Dark based on people that you knew and thing that happened to you? Much later, she wrote fiction: The Lion and the Unicorn (2000), a short novel with many illustrations for six- to eight-year-olds, and two wartime adventures, Hero on a Bicycle (2012) and Whistling in the Dark (2016). In 2012 she published Dixie O’Day: In The Fast Lane!, the first in an illustrated series created jointly with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy. For her last book, written at the age of 92, she returned to the story of the lost toy dog with a seasonal sequel, Dogger’s Christmas, published in 2020.The poem ‘spring greens’ can relate to a topic all about gardening and allows children to explore planting their own plants. Dogger (1977), which she wrote and illustrated, was the first story by Hughes to be widely published abroad [17] and it was recognised by the Library Association's Kate Greenaway Medal as the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. [4] In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the companion Carnegie Medal in 2007, it named one of the top ten Greenaway Medal-winning works by an expert panel and then named the public favourite, or "Greenaway of Greenaways". (The public voted on the panel's shortlist of ten, selected from the 53 winning works 1955 to 2005. Hughes and Dogger polled 26% of the vote to 25% for its successor as medalist, Janet Ahlberg and Each Peach Pear Plum.) [7] [8] [27] [28] A subsequent victim who escaped from Dahmer alive ultimately led to his being convicted of 16 murders. Prosecutors determined that Dahmer mainly lured his victims to his apartment under the guise of sexual interest, drugged them, strangled them or otherwise killed them, and sometimes performed sex acts with their corpses before dismembering them. She could create a sense of drama out of the smallest thing and resolve it without ever needing to deliver a message. Instead, she relied on children and their parents being largely sensible and so able to solve problems for themselves. Cottrell-Boyce, Frank (2 March 2022). "Shirley Hughes Showed Our World at Its Best". New Statesman . Retrieved 2 March 2022.

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A cross curricular link to science would be when teaching about seasonal changes as this book has poems relating to every season.You have written for different age groups. From babies to adults with Bye Bye Birdy (an adult wordless book), Do you have a preference? - and why?