Shirley Hughes was a highly-respected and popular British author and illustrator, having written over 60 books and illustrated over 200. She’s best known for her Alfie and Dogger series of stories.

Shirley was brought into the world on sixteenth July 1927 in West Kirby, close to Liverpool. She concentrated on style and dress plan at Liverpool Art School, prior to proceeding with her examinations at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.

She then, at that point, left on a profession as an independent artist in London, where she actually resides today. Shirley started to compose and draw her own image books when her youngsters were youthful.

Her first book, Lucy and Tom’s Day, was published in 1960, and she keeps on delighting young readers with silent picture books and strip kid’s shows among others.

Shirley Hughes Children: Meet Clara Vulliamy and Ed Vulliamy

Shirley Hughes is survived by two children namely; Clara Vulliamy and Ed Vulliamy.

Ed Vulliamy

Ed Vulliamy is a British journalist and writer who formally worked with the Guardian and Observer writer. He had his education at the independent King’s College School, Cambridge, University College School, and at Hertford College, Oxford, where he won an Open Scholarship.

Kick-starting his career in 1979, Ed joined Granada Television’s present undertakings program World in real life, and in 1985 won a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for a film regarding Ireland.

In 1986, he joined The Guardian as a journalist, later Rome reporter covering the Mafia and Southern Europe. From that point, he covered the Balkan wars, uncovering a gulag of death camps.

In August 1992, Vulliamy and British TV correspondent Penny Marshall figured out how to get sufficiently close to the infamous Omarska and Trnopolje camps, worked by the Bosnian Serbs for primarily Bosnian Muslim and Croat Catholic prisoners.

Clara Vulliamy

Clara Vulliamy is an illustrator and author who is best known for her Dixie O’Day series (Random House).

Clara has additionally made a pre-school series, Martha and the Bunny Brothers (Harper Collins), and teamed up with James Mayhew on Bubble and Squeak (Orchard).

Clara has additionally revived four Mary Plain titles, by creator Gwynedd Rae (Egmont).