Puddles and Parties

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Join Alfie for two classic adventures: Alfie's Feet ad Alfie Gives a Hand... In Alfie's Feet, Alfie splish, splash, sploshes in his new yellow boots, which are perfect for stamping in puddles on rainy days. Someting just isn't right though - whatever can it be? Alfie gets to grips with left and right in this splashy story. In Alfie Gives a Hand, Alfie is delighed to be invited to Bernard's birthday party, although he's a little bit nervous about going on his own. But Alfie overcomes his shyness and even helps a new friend in this fun-filled tale.

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, and a CBE in 2017. She is the first recipient of Booktrust's Lifetime Achievement Award.