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Hardback32 pages
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Bodley Head Children's Books an imprint of Random House Children's BooksPublication date
4th March 2010ISBN
9780370329628Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Don't Want to Go!
Shirley Hughes
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RRP: £10.99 Saving £2.75 (25%)Julia Eccleshare's comment:
In her warm and readily recognisable illustrations, award winning illustrator Shirley Hughes always captures the small but important details of how young children feel.
When Mum is ill one day, Dad says Lily has to go to Melanie’s house, but Lily doesn’t want to go! Thankfully, through the course of the day Lily finds lots of new things that she likes including a baby and a dog and when Dad comes to fetch her, she doesn’t want to go home!
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Synopsis
Don't Want to Go! by Shirley HughesMum is ill and Dad has to go to work, so Lily will have to go to Melanie's house for the day. Dad says she'll have lots of fun, but there's a problem: Lily doesn't want to go! Join Lily as she braves Melanie's house, and realises that doing new things needn't be scary after all.
About The Author
Shirley Hughes was born and grew up in West Kirby, near Liverpool. She studied at Liverpool Art School and at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, before embarking on a career as a freelance illustrator. At first she worked as an interpretive illustrator, but she began to write and design her own picture books when her children were very young. Her first book, Lucy and Tom's Day, was published in 1960. Now living in London's Notting Hill, Shirley Hughes has illustrated over two hundred children's books and is renowned as a champion of children's literature. She has been the recipient of the Other Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award rewards the best in contemporary children's and young adult literature from all over the world. Shirley Hughes has been shortlisted for the award, the winner of which will be announced in March 2010.
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