Lucy & Tom's Christmas (Picture Puffin S.)

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Shirley Hughes’s illustrations have the same effect as discovering an old reel of cine film buried in the loft.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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 was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, 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. Content surprises are super annoying, especially when you’re 100+ pages in, so here’s my attempt to help you avoid that!

It's the first Christmas book I've ever read that showed the children "posting" their letters to Santa by burning them in the fireplace. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Perhaps it's the spirit of the season that permeates this book, even for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere.

She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. Shirley Hughes is a great loss to children’s literature and this, of all her books, seems to me one that will last. This wonderful heartwarming story was read to me as a child and brings back so many happy memories as I now have the privilege of reading it to my niece.

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