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Well my wonderful friends, today has felt like a really lovely party for the fabulous .
Thank you for joining in. I'm signing off now, so take care everyone and good night...sweet dreams!

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One of my other favourites I absolutely have to share is Sally’s Secret - unbelievable that now I can really have tea in my own garden like a grown up lady

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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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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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🎂
These are some of our favourite ' books - my childhood copy of My Naughty Little Sister is battered & well loved. It's the first book that I remember my mum reading to me as a child 📚
https://t.co/4QlLMwoC6Z

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used to LOVE getting Alfie books from the library as a child. this illustration fascinated me then and still fascinates me now 🤩 🥳

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

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

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

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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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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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Happy Birthday. An illustration from my favourite book.

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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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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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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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Let’s make a big noise for a wonderful story teller and artist. She has given children and parents such pleasure over the years.

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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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