Shirley Hughes

Winifred Shirley Hughes was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred.

Hughes won the 1977 and 2003 Kate Greenaway Medals for British children’s book illustration. In 2007, her 1977 winner, Dogger, was named the public’s favourite winning work of the award’s first fifty years. She won the inaugural BookTrust lifetime achievement award in 2015. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. She was a patron of the Association of Illustrators.