Shirley Hughesさんのイラストまとめ

Just as the bus was pulling away, Lily did a dreadful thing. She swung Bobbo round and round by his leg and threw him high into the air - just like that! Bobbo flew up head first and landed smack on the roof of the bus...

From Bobbo Goes to School

It was Monday morning and Mum was loading the washing machine. Lily wasn’t helping. She was hiding Bobbo amongst the towels and sheets.

From Bobbo Goes to School 1/2

M is for moon, the most magic light of all.

Skipping ahead to...

O is also for oven. There are some good smells coming out of this one, but you have to be careful because IT’S VERY HOT.

From Lucy and Tom From A to X

‘You are to be home by the last stroke of midnight,’ the Fairy Godmother told Ella. ‘The magic only lasts until then. After that it’s back to normal.’

From Ella’s Big Chance 1/2

This week we will be looking through the pages of Ella’s Big Chance, Shirley’s retelling of the Cinderella story.

Morag gave me one of her pictures to take home with me. It’s very beautiful, all watery and curving. Sometimes I think it looks like waves, or the shape of a seal, or perhaps a woman swimming.

From the story Sea Singing in Stories By Firelight 3/3

Selkies are seal people. They can cast off their skins and take human form. Once a fisherman stole a selkie’s skin so she couldn’t turn back into a seal again. That night she came crying and moaning round his cottage all wet begging him to give back her skin. But he wouldn’t. 1/2

Late that afternoon Morag and I went for a walk along the cliffs. We didn’t hear any singing, but the wind roared and the sky looked like a shoal of fish.

From Stories by Firelight

When I told Mum’s friend, Morag, about the singing, she didn’t seem in the least surprised. She’d heard it herself, she said, but that was a long time ago. I was staying with Morag, having a whole term off school. They said the sea air would do me good.

From Stories by Firelight

This week we’re looking at the story Sea Singing from Stories By Firelight.

Did I tell you about the time I heard singing coming from the sea? I knew it wasn’t the wind or seabirds calling. It was a woman’s voice, I was sure of that.