About Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. Hughes wrote her first novel in 2015, a young-adult book titled Hero on a Bicycle. In 2007, her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named the public's favourite winning work of the award's first fifty years. She won the inaugural BookTrust lifetime achievement award in 2015. The first published book she both wrote and illustrated was Lucy & Tom's Day, which was made into a series of stories.
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