Alfie Gives a Hand - Hardcover

Hughes, Shirley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037032465X ISBN 13: 9780370324654

Publisher: Random House UK, 1997

Synopsis

Join Alfie, his little sister, Annie Rose, and their friend Bernard, in this classic Alfie tale.

One day Alfie came home from Nursery School with a card in an envelope. His best friend, Bernard, had given it to him.

When Alfie is invited to Bernard’s birthday party he is a bit nervous about going on his own so he takes his special blanket with him. But Alfie has so much fun that he finds he doesn’t need his blanket after all – and he even makes a new friend too.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

About the Author

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 is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Review

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037032465X
• ISBN 13: 9780370324654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32