Trouble with Jack (Armada Picture Lions S.) - Softcover

Hughes, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000660658X ISBN 13: 9780006606581

Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1973

Synopsis

The trouble with having a brother like Jake is not only that he's messy and spoils Nancy's toys, but he is also extremely good at causing chaos at other peoples birthday parties.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 000660658X
• ISBN 13: 9780006606581
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32