Книга: Shirley Hughes «The Lion And The Unicorn»

The Lion And The Unicorn

As Lenny's father goes off to fight in the second world war he gives his son a brass badge with a lion and a unicorn on it. Lenny keeps it with him when bombs are dropped on his street and when he has to be evacuated to a big house in the country. He misses his parents a great deal and the other children there and at school are spiteful in teasing him. But he finds a secret walled garden to escape to with a stone unicorn. Here he meets the wounded soldier Mick and learns again how hard it is to be brave. It is the unicorn who finally rescues him from his sadness and loneliness and proves itself to be his guardian angel by bringing his mother to him.

Издательство: "Red Fox" (2000)

Формат: 230x280, 64 стр.

ISBN: 9780099256083

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Shirley Hughes

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birthplace = Wirral Peninsula, United Kingdom
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occupation = Freelance writer and illustrator
nationality = British
period = 1960s – present
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Shirley Hughes (born 16 July 1927, Wirral, United Kingdom) is an English author and illustrator. She has written more than fifty books which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated over two hundred. She currently lives in London. [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000015904,00.html Shirley Hughes - Penguin UK Authors] . URL retrieved on 1 January 2007.] [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=Hughes,%20Shirley Random House profile] . URL retrieved on 1 January 2007.] [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2165527,00.html Times Online: It's all about Alfie] . URL retrieved on 1 January 2007.]

Early life

Hughes grew up in West Kirby, in the Wirral. She has stated that during childhood she was inspired by artists like Arthur Rackham and W. Heath Robinson, and later the cinema and the Walker Art Gallery. [http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Shirley-Hughes Shirley Hughes at Walker Books] . URL retrieved on 1 January 2007.] She was educated at West Kirby High School, and studied drawing and costume design at the Liverpool School of Art, then the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. Whilst at Oxford, she was encouraged to work in the picture book format and to make lithographic illustrations. Soon she was commissioned by Collins. After art school Hughes moved to Notting Hill, London [http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/shirley/intro.asp Shirley Hughes - Alfie, Dogger and Friends] . URL retrieved on 1 January 2007.] and married John Vulliamy, an architect and etcher, and they had three children together, including the journalist Ed Vulliamy and a daughter who is also a children's book illustrator, Clara Vulliamy. [http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/CEC/Recreation/Libraries/Fine_Art_Library/Childrens_Illustrators/shirleyhughes.html Booklist of Works by Childrens Book Illustrators] . URL retrieved on 1 January 2007.]

Work

Hughes began her work during the 1950s and 1960s by illustrating other books, such as My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards and "The Bell Family" by Noel Streatfeild. Her first work as an author was "Lucy & Tom's Day", first published in 1960. This story proved popular, and so "Lucy and Tom" became a series. She went on to write over fifty more stories, including a series about a young boy named Alfie, and his sister Annie-Rose.

Awards

Her 1977 story, "Dogger", was the first to be published widely abroad. This story also won her the Kate Greenaway Medal the same year. In 1984 Hughes won the Eleanor Farjeon award for distinguished services to children's literature. In 1999, she was awarded an OBE, and in 2000 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2003 she won the Kate Greenaway Medal again for "Ella's Big Chance" and was also granted an Honorary Fellowship by Liverpool John Moores University.

References

Источник: Shirley Hughes

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