A Year of Stories: and Things to Do

New
Picture Book
2014
$17.26

This wonderful collection from Shirley Hughes takes you right through the year with best-loved stories and poems for every month and mood. What's more, every month explores great things to do: crafts to make, games to play, ideas to explore. A treasury which will bring joy throughout the year, and for years to come...A Year of Stories and Things To Do includes: the Greenaway Medal award-winner Ella's Big Chance, Alfie's Feet, Alfie Wins a Prize, Don't Want to Go!, Bobbo Goes to School, Jonadab and Rita and many more...

Synopsis

This wonderful collection from Shirley Hughes takes you right through the year with best-loved stories and poems for every month and mood. What's more, every month explores great things to do: crafts to make, games to play, ideas to explore. A treasury which will bring joy throughout the year, and for years to come...A Year of Stories and Things To Do includes: the Greenaway Medal award-winner Ella's Big Chance, Alfie's Feet, Alfie Wins a Prize, Don't Want to Go!, Bobbo Goes to School, Jonadab and Rita and many more...

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More Information

Format: Picture Book
Pages: 288
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 28 Aug 2014
ISBN 10: 0370332482
ISBN 13: 9780370332482
Children’s book age: 5-7 Years
Book Overview: A classic treasury of Shirley Hughes stories together with crafts, games and activities for every month

Media Reviews

A perfect gift and a book to share and treasure for many years. * Parents in Touch *
A Year of Stories and Things to Do has traditional ideas for games and creativity as well as poems and reassuring tales of toddlerdom. * Culture, Sunday Times *
This has main grandparent present written all over it. . . Hughes's illustrations and gentle morality tales still pack a punch. -- Alex O'Connell * The Times *
This book delivers plenty of inspiration for hours of creative fun and joy - a collection to be passed on to future generations. * Mumsnet Feature 'Best New Books for 4-7 year olds' *

Author Bio

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, and a CBE in 2017. She is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.