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Alfie Gets in First

Alfie Gets in First

by ShirleyHughes (Author)

  • Used

    Picture Book 2009

    $3.86

  • Used

    Paperback 1991

    $3.25

  • Used

    Hardcover 1997

    $13.55
Synopsis

Alfie and his mum and baby sister, Annie Rose, arrive home after shopping. While his mum struggles with the pushchair outside, Alfie rushes inside and slams the door behind him. So now Alfie's stuck inside and his mum and Annie Rose are stuck outside without a key! Soon everyone in the street is trying to help rescue Alfie - but he's got a plan of his own...

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More Information

Format: Picture Book
 Pages: 32
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 07 May 2009
ISBN 10: 1862307830
ISBN 13: 9781862307834
Children’s book age: 0-5 Years
 Book Overview: A timeless picture book and the first in the hugely popular Alfie series.

Media Reviews
Enormously satisfying. * The Guardian *
There's just something so reassuring about Hughes' colourful drawings of the day-to-day activities that you know inside out . . . Words and pictures merge seamlessly . . . Hughes is a magical storyteller with an instinctive understanding of the mind of the pre-schooler . . . She makes the ordinary extraordinary * Guardian *
Shirley Hughes is a national treasure -- Philip Pullman
Text and artwork are both delightful and sympathetically balanced * British Book News *
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.