A Life Drawing

Lavishly illustrated, and with a text written as a personal storyline detailing this favourite author's remarkable life as an illustrator.
Reflecting on art and her own development, Shirley takes us through her life: from a girlhood obsessed with comics, through the war, art school in a blitzed Liverpool, on to Oxford and then London. The book will be a treasured gift for those who love art and those who have grown up with Shirley Hughes' enduring characters.

Lavishly illustrated throughout with sketches from Shirley Hughes' sketchbooks, doodles from boring meetings, roughs from what would later become classic picture books, and perfectly executed paintings done just for the fun of it, this book will be a treasured gift for those who love art and those who have grown up with the enduring characters from Shirley's books. A personal text in the form of a story details her remarkable life as an illustrator.