This wonderful gift book covers the most exciting, innovative period in history, featuring everything from the invention of the vacuum cleaner and bra to the splitting of the atom and the first computers.
Shirley was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, and studied fashion
and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her
studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. She
then embarked on a career as a freelance illustrator in London,
where she still lives today. She illustrated other writers' work,
including Noel Streatfeild, Alison Uttley, Ian Seraillier, Margaret
Mahy and notably Dorothy Edwards's My Naughty Little Sister
series.
Shirley began to write and draw her own picture books when her
children were young. Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was
published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger
and the Alfie series.
Shirley Hughes has won the Other Award, the Eleanor Farjeon Award,
and the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration twice, for Dogger in
1977 and for Ella's Big Chance in 2003. In 2007 Dogger was voted
the public's favourite Greenaway winner of all time. Shirley
received an OBE in 1999 for services to Children's Literature, and
a CBE in 2017. She is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Shirley Hughes has created a new kind of non-fiction with this
combination of sketchbook and history book . . . The ecleticism of
the drawings inescapably places the grave and the frivolous side by
side, but the book offers not only a useful timeline but also a
valuable guide to how history used to look
*The Sunday Times*
There is much to reflect on . . . This is a fascinating book for
children and adults
*Guardian*
A fascinating personal selection . . . One for the whole family to
talk about
*Carousel*
Richly narrative paintings and finely observed line illustrations
are interwoven with fascinating details, capturing the atmosphere
of an extraordinarily exciting era
*Good Book Guide*
Brings the past to life in a new way
*Front Row, BBC Radio 4*
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