Advantages: Powerful, moving story, delightful illustrations Disadvantages: Makes me cry sometimes
If I had to choose just one children’s picture book to keep, from all those I have ever come across, I would have no hesitation in selecting Dogger by Shirley Hughes. It’s one I first came across when my sons were small, and when our paperback version f ...
Advantages: great childrens book Disadvantages: slightly dated illistrations
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
After another recent trip to the library I found this book that look ever so familiar to me. I didn't think to much about it at the time but when I got home and began to read it to Jack I realised that this was one of the ...
My mother likes to tell a story about reading Puss In Boots to me as a child. In it, there’s a part that goes something along the lines of “and he had no mummy and no daddy to look after him”. It was probably on the 500th reading of the ...
Advantages: Classic children's book, lovely illustrations Disadvantages: A little bit sad, perhaps a bit sentimental
I’ve read many lovely reviews of children’s books on Ciao and ‘the other place’, and this is a stroll down memory lane for me, writing about one of my favourite childrens’ authors and illustrators – and for anyone who r ...
Advantages: a great book for children Disadvantages: ?
Dogger by Shirley Hughes. This book is written for children by Shirley Hughes published in 1977.
Shirley Hughes has written quite a lot of other books several in the Alfie series and Helpers, Sally secret, Moving Molly and others I cannot remember ...
