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Lots of her illustrations bring back the best of memories from my childhood. This one could have been me with all my teddies. I shared a bed with my older sister and she never had enough room

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2020-07-16

Please raise a toast to Shirley Hughes on her birthday as we unveil the cover of Dogger's Christmas.
Shirley's wonderful new story about Dogger and Dave will be published on 29th October, and we can't wait to share it with you.

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2020-07-16

in 1927, Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator. Her illustrations always bring back the best of memories of my own childhood 🕊

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2020-07-16

Celebrating the amazing talents of this is my favourite... such joy in this picture

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2020-07-16

Happy Birthday Shirley Hughes, I nearly share my birthday with you🎂. Thank you for all the joy you bring us📚🌈

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2020-07-16

I have always loved Shirley Hughes. My favourite illustrations of hers are the ones for the selkie story in Sea Singing in Stories by Firelight - such a haunting beautiful story - I read it in childhood and never forgot

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2020-07-16

It took an age to pick my favourite, but it has to be Angel Mae!

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2020-07-16

A very 🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎊 to ! I've chosen this illustration of yours to show what a wonderful colourist you are (and this looks exactly the way I remember Ireland..)

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2020-07-16

Happy Birthday ! Here are 4 favourites:
Annie Rose is My Little Sister - weeped everytime I read it to my kids
Alfie Gets In first - iconic use of gutter
Lucy and Tom at the Seaside - use in school with 6thform
Up & Up! - my favourite

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2020-07-16

Happy Birthday. An illustration from my favourite book.

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2020-07-16

I don't know how many times I read Alfie Gets in First as a child but I can still hear the drip drip drip and almost probably recite most of it🤣 Thank you for giving me some of my fondest childhood reading memories 📚

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2020-07-16

I'm posting lots today, in honour of the great, beloved , who has her birthday today. I love this early Thumbelina from a 1961 HC Anderson collection. What a career she has had! WATCH OUT FOR BIG NEWS AT 11am!

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2020-07-16

has to be by today - because its the great lady's birthday! Here's "Alfie & the Birthday Surprise" (1997).
Please share *your* favourite Shirley Hughes illustrations! Let's fill twitter & celebrate!

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2020-07-16


Two brown eyes,
One pink nose,
Ten busy fingers,
Ten pink toes,
Colour in her brown curls,
Colour in her clothes,
Colour in a big smile,
And that's Annie Rose
- A Picture of Annie Rose from "Rhymes for Annie Rose” - fantastic work by

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2020-07-16

and what male feminists like Snyder and the despicable Daniel Warren Johnson have done to Wonder Woman is shameful. They have turned Diana into a sullen shithead. It's just shit. First pic is Wonder Woman as she should look by Adam Hughes. Other pics are 2020 interpretations 🤢/2

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2020-07-15

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you
-Langston Hughes

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2020-07-15

Charity Auction is now open! This year's theme is 'Living the Dream', with over 150 works created & donated by Members of the Club, including Ken Howard, Maggi Hambling & Patrick Hughes.
Auction closes Tues 21 Jul 8.30pm https://t.co/uQCkrHCXdu

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2020-07-12

This morning Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Thomas Hughes gave a brilliant work-in-progress talk for us about his current research on ‘Queer Ruskin’, thinking about relationships between ecology and sexuality.

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2020-07-10