The Lion And The Unicorn
Publishing Details
The Lion And The Unicorn
By (Author) Shirley Hughes
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
6th October 2000
7th September 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
823.914
Short-listed for Kate Greenaway Medal 1999
Physical Properties
64
Width 232mm, Height 284mm, Spine 6mm
381g
Description
This powerful story, from classic creator Shirley Hughes, is an uplifting tale of bravery and friendship. This special edition includes stories from real-life evacuees, uncovered from the Imperial War Museums. This special edition includes stories from real-life evacuees, uncovered from the Imperial War Museums. When Lenny's father goes to fight in the Second World War he gives his son a brass badge with two animals engraved on it- a lion for bravery and a unicorn for courage. Then, Lenny himself must go away, evacuated from his home and family to escape the bombing. Staying in a strange new place, Lenny gathers all his lion bravery, all his unicorn courage, and discovers that magic can happen, even in the most desperate of times.
Reviews
No one can match Shirley Hughes in the simple mastery of both words and pictures * Times Educational Supplement *
Author Bio
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.
