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Alfie Gives a Hand

Alfie Gives a Hand

by ShirleyHughes (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.24

  • Used

    Paperback 2010

    $3.24

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    Hardcover 1985

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Alfie is delighted to be invited to Bernard's birthday party, although he feels a bit nervous about going on his own. But Alfie has such a great time, he finds he doesn't even need his special blanket - and he makes a new friend too! Join Alfie as he overcomes his shyness and becomes the most helpful guest at the party.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 32
 Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 07 May 2009
ISBN 10: 1862307857
ISBN 13: 9781862307858
Children’s book age: 0-5 Years
 Book Overview: A timeless tale about plucking up courage. Make a friend for life in Alfie!

Media Reviews
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
Hughes' perceptive eye captures the expressions and feelings of small children perfectly * Scotsman *
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.