Hero on a Bicycle Award-winning author by Shirley Hughes (author)

Author/Illustrator

Shirley Hughes

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.

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1. Book-Club-Review-Team
   on 8 July 2013

   I really enjoyed this war-themed book, with a twist. At the moment I think the war story genre is saturated with terrible war books. But this war novel is absolutely brilliant. The aspect of the story that made it better was that it was not set in Britian, Germany or France like other war novels. Instead this book was set in Italy, which means this book is behind enemy lines and does not see that much action, but when it does- it is action packed! I quite like the fact that it wasnt a book full of war as it does get repetitive sometimes! This meant that there was a lot of room to get to know the characters. My favourite scene was when Poalo and Constanza were walking home from the town square when a mine is set off and a massive explosion rips the ground apart. My heart was beating fast at this point because as I turned the pages throughout the next chapter I was dying to find out if anybody had died. My favourite character is Joe who is an escaped prisoner of war. The italian resistance sent him to the Crivelli family until he could escape the country. As the family was put into danger by doing this he said that he would leave to avoid trouble, fortunately for him the family insisted he stayed- no matter what danger he would put them in. Later we find that the secret police has shot a crucial character in the books storyline. Obviously you will have to read the book to find out! I rate this book 10/10, a fast-paced page turner!

   Ben, aged 13

   5 out of 5

2. TwilightTeamEdward
   on 27 January 2013

   I really love this book because it’s full of adventure and truth. it also shows courage and hope through war

   5 out of 5