Shirley Hughes 

Shirley Hughes is an English author and illustrator who has written more than fifty books, selling more than 11.5 million copies. At Oxford, Hughes was encouraged to work in the picture book format and make lithographic illustrations. She was soon commissioned by book publisher William Collins, Sons to illustrate another writer's book. The first...

Shirley Hughes is an English author and illustrator who has written more than fifty books, selling more than 11.5 million copies. At Oxford, Hughes was encouraged to work in the picture book format and make lithographic illustrations. She was soon commissioned by book publisher William Collins, Sons to illustrate another writer's book. The first published book she both wrote and illustrated was Lucy & Tom's Day, which was made into a series of stories. She went on to write over fifty more stories, including Dogger (1977); the Alfie series (1977), featuring a young boy named Alfie and sometimes his sister Annie-Rose; and the Olly and Me series (1993). Hughes wrote her first novel in 2015, a young-adult book titled Hero on a Bicycle.