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Shirley Hughes CBE, is an award winning author of childrens books such as Dogger and Ellas Big Chance who has written more the fifty titles with over 11.5 million copies sold worldwide.
I started as an illustrator of other people’s books and I did all kinds of stuff before I wrote my own books. My big break was illustrating the wonderful My Naughty Little Sister books by Dorothy Edwards. You’re as good as your text when you’re an illustrator and these books are terrific. Then someone suggested I should do a book of my own, and I wrote and illustrated Lucy and Tom – that was 55 years ago!
Keep drawing and don’t worry if the drawing doesn’t turn out like you want it to. Of course it’s not going to turn out how it looks in your head because pictures never do. But keep doing it, and alway keep a sketch book. And keep writing. If you see an interesting thing, jot it down or draw it. Be a magpie, that’s what all authors and illustrators do.
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