Alfie Wins A Prize

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A wonderful story for winners (and losers) everywhere. Make a friend for life in Alfie! Alfie's painting 'Motorbike Man' has been entered in the children's painting competition at the Harvest Fair. His friends have done paintings too, but when the winners are announced, not everyone is happy with their prize... Join Alfie on an exciting day at the fair as he comes up with a brilliant solution!

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.

Inspiring, lovingly drawn * The Sunday Times * [Alfie] seems drawn from life, as ever * The Children's Bookseller * The story has comedy and pathos . . . The illustrations are enchanting - cosy, warm and also very familiar * The School Librarian * For many children this is a very familiar world * Carousel * For toddlers just begining to discover the fascination of everyday life, Shirley Hughes's classic Alfie series is a must * Irish Sunday Independent *