Shirley Hughesさんのイラストまとめ

Closer to home, these three paintings are from West Sussex in 1974. The third shows John, Clara and their two cats.

Cherubino had run away, they said, or perhaps even been drowned. She missed Cherubino more than she could say.
Weeks passed.
Then one night Cherubino came back. 1/2

‘We must find Cherubino!’

When Valerie saw him she let out a cry of joy, flung her arms around him and refused to be separated. So it was that Valerie’s mother offered Cherubino a home. 2/2

No one could decide what was to be done with Cherubino. In the end they took him to an orphanage and put him in the care of nuns. 1/2

‘Stolen!’ cried the park keeper. ‘Thieves! Vandals! Someone has been in the night and taken one of our most valuable statues!’

Enchantment in the Garden

Every day in the late afternoon, Valerie and her governess, Miss McKenzie, set out for the garden and out by the sunlit garden where Neptune the great sea god rode on a sea monster.

Enchantment in the Garden

This week we are off to Italy, scene of many holidays for Shirley and her husband John, and into the pages of Enchantment in the Garden.

Once, in an old Italian city, in a house with many rooms, there lived a girl called Valerie.

On the first day of school Lucy held her mother’s hand very tightly. In the playground there were a great many children waiting to go in.

From Lucy & Tom at School

Alfie felt in his pocket to check that Bonting was still there. But he wasn’t!

Alfie cried all the way to the car park and part of the way home.

Bonting from The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook 1/2

Wherever the bank holiday takes you - to the park, the seaside, camping in the garden - we’ll be returning to the beach this week looking at some of the stories in The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook