Dogger Award-winning

Author/Illustrator

Shirley Hughes

Shirley was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, 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. She then embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in London, where she still lives today. She illustrated other writers’ work, including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier, Margaret Mahy and notably Dorothy Edwards’s My Naughty Little Sister series.

Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her children were young. 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 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. In 2007 Dogger was voted the public’s favourite Greenaway winner of all time. Shirley received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children’s Literature.

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1. 

   gp15
   on 18 May 2016

   this book is sooo good! I luv that he likes his dog so much. I’v read it 100 times!

   5out of 5
2. 

   Partyfairy123
   on 4 March 2012

   I like it when the girl buys dogger and she says no! But the sister asks if she will swap for the teddy. It is happy in the end.

3. 

   dashernasher
   on 3 March 2012

   by far my favorite absolutely brillent

4. 

   rad12
   on 28 October 2011

   I love to read this story because it has u sad bit but make you happy when he find then also my best part us whenthey went to the fair .

   4out of 5