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A Life Drawing

Recollections of an Illustrator

By Hughes, Shirley

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Lavishly illustrated, and with a text written as a personal storyline detailing this favourite author’s remarkable life as an illustrator.Reflecting on art and her own development, Shirley takes us through her life: from a girlhood obsessed with comics, through the war, art school in a blitzed Liverpool, on to Oxford and then London. The book will be a treasured gift for those who love art and those who have grown up with Shirley Hughes’ enduring characters.

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978-0-37032-605-4
Publisher
The Bodley Head


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Reviewed on March 1, 2008

In this well-thought-out autobiography, Hughes sets aside ego and concentrates on the events, people, and arts that have influenced her life and work. Along with personal anecdotes, she discusses the history of childrens literature and gives her own philosophy of childrens booksa p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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