The Big Alfie And Annie Rose Storybook - Tapa dura

In this bumper collection of five new stories and poems featuring Alfie and his baby sister Annie Rose, Shirley Hughes depicts family experiences with which small children can identify, whether the everyday breakfast time chaos or the excitement of going to a wedding for the first time. Shirley Hughes won the 1984 Eleanor Farjeon Award for her services to children and books, and was the recipient of the 1977 Kate Greenaway Medal for "Dogger". She is also author of "Alfie's Feet", "Alfie Gets in First", "Alfie Gives a Hand", "An Evening at Alfie's", "Helpers", "Moving Molly", "Sally's Secret" and "Up and Up".

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.