Lucy & Tom's Christmas (Picture Puffin S.)

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Shirley Hughes’s illustrations have the same effect as discovering an old reel of cine film buried in the loft. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger, and the Alfie series.

Shirley Hughes is a great loss to children’s literature and this, of all her books, seems to me one that will last. With each review, I provide a Cleanliness Report, mentioning any objectionable content I come across so that parents and/or conscientious readers (like me) can determine beforehand whether they want to read a book or not. I used to read it every Christmas to my children when they were young and now I'm reading it again to my grandchildren. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and was awarded the OBE for her distinguished service to children's literature.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Shirley Hughes is the illustrator of more than two hundred children’s books and has won many prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice. Hughes is so prolific and I highly recommend seeking out her picture books- not always so easy to find on this side of the ocean.

Didn’t realize that until adulthood :) bought this book as soon as my daughter was born to read to her each Christmas season. In 1930s Liverpool, young Bronwen and Dylan find kindness from an unexpected source when they are frightened by what they think is a ghost on Christmas Eve. My boys found it inspirational--and pointed out that we did Christmas crackers earlier in the week rather than at Christmas dinner. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.

She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations. I also love the English flavor of these books, fun to point out expressions like "cross" that may not be so familiar to American children. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Hughes has a lovely endearing style to her drawing - I will certainly be reading and collecting many other titles from her.

Yes, it is set in time, with ethnicity and class embedded, but is for me a beloved classic, and à compassionate and keenly observed account. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. We talk about the differences in the way these children celebrate Christmas in England and they celebrate Christmas in the states.Content surprises are super annoying, especially when you’re 100+ pages in, so here’s my attempt to help you avoid that! Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in 1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.